Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, fresh off its success in organizing a meeting for 800 Catholics in Philadelphia July 11-13, has begun a series of events across the country to begin a national conversation on the full range of Catholic issues. The 'Platform for the Common Good,' written in Philadelphia by small groups of all the participants, states, "Too many today have lost a sense of a consistent ethic of life, which is harmed in many ways, including by poverty, abortion and capital punishment. Internationally, our economic system has disproportionately benefitted large corporations and their shareholders while millions of U.S. workers and laborers, family farmers in the global south and others often struggle in poverty."

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