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Bishops issue new analysis of poverty in Michigan

The principles of Catholic social teaching address a number of issues that exemplify the mission of the Church. As the State of Michigan continues to witness an alarming number of mortgage foreclosures, an increase in the number of families living without health insurance, high unemployment rates adn job loss, the time is now for a more focused public policy attention to the plight of Michigan's poor and suffering population. Read full analysis, in the current MCC Focus.

Thursday, September 2, 2010
"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.

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