2 min readPope Francis Among the Wolves The Inside Story of a Revolution  By Marco Politi  Columbia University Press. $27.95 Reviewed by Elizabeth Webb in America Magazine, June 20-27, 2016. Check it out here. I’m going to find this book and read it! If you cant read this book, check out this book review! Apparently this book reiterates what a righteous guy the Pope is in public but it also “sheds light on the Pope’s revolution within church institutions.” The book tells how Francis shakes up the Vatican by cracking down on money laundering, misuse of funds, and abuse of power. It talks

4 min readby Brian Flagg Casa Maria is a subscriber to NCR and I highly recommend it as a source of news, especially if you are Catholic. Letter to the Editor, National Catholic Reporter, July 15-28, 2016 Michael Sean Winters’ article celebrating the one year anniversary of Laudato Si’ (NCRonline.org/node/125486) concluded with an appeal for parishes to start picking the low hanging fruit of improving the carbon footprint of their facilities. I would also encourage parishes to engage right now with leading national and local climate action organizations to strike out at the huge social injustice impact of climate change that is

6 min readby Cesar Aguirre On Sunday evening I looked through the Star only to find Columnist Tim Steller using his position and influence to, in effect, campaign against the TUSD board majority. The article titled “TUSD broke promises with Prop. 123 spending” really has nothing to do with the management of funds in the  district, but has everything to do with the upcoming elections. The entire purpose of this article can be found in these two sentences. Foster, by the way, is up for re-election, along with fellow board member Cam Juarez. If either of them should lose, the board’s voting

< 1 min readThey have a councilwoman there who fights for justice and poor people. Her name is Kshama Sawant and her attitude is: Tax the wealthy to fund mass transit! If they can elect someone like her in Seattle, why can’t we do something similar here in blue, progressive, all-Democrats on the City Council Tucson? Thanks to El Colombiano Juan O’Campo, who used to live in Tucson and work at SEIU, for sending us this interview. Juan now lives in Miami, Florida. This interview was first pulished in Telesur, 27 march 2016: Kshama Sawant on Trump, Bernie and Building Socialism in the

3 min read  by Brian Flagg His message resonated deeply with many people, especially younger ones who have significantly less economic opportunity in front of them than their parents or even grandparents had. Look at how many states he won, acting like the Democratic Socialist he really is and has been for decades. As Congressman Raul Grijalva said in an e-mail (Tuesday July 12) “The Democratic Party platform calls for a $15 national hourly minimum wage. It would not have happened if Bernie Sanders had not run such a great presidential race.” Grijalva also said that “the platform can be turned into

4 min readby Brian Flagg In Mayor Rothschild’s opinion piece in Friday’s Star  (7-8-2016) he claims that there is “a new sense of pride, optimism, and excitement in our city because of the City’s economic development efforts.” My question is, according to whom? The Tucsonans that make less than $10 an hour? According to the Star article (7-8-2016) about the $12 an hour minimum wage initiative, a quarter of the workforce in Arizona makes less than $10 an hour. Certainly he is not talking about the 60,000 daily Sun Tran riders, many whom live in poverty, who are facing a large fare increase in

3 min readpor Alicia Nunez Tengo la bendición de haber asistido al Congreso OCDS en San Jose, Cal. del 23-26 Junio, acompañada de mis hermanas en Cristo; Carmen, Toni, y Zulema. Tambien estuvieron en el Congreso P. Godfrey y P. Juan Elias de St. Cruz. Eramos Cerca de 550 personas sin contar los sacerdotes y seminaristas. Hermosa experiencia! Estar en comunidad con mis hermanos en el Carmelo es una paz, una tranquilidad, que solo Dios y nuestra Madre Santísima pueden dar, y no hay palabras para describirla … solo se siente. Estar en oración en comunidad, acompañada de tantos sacerdotes, seminaristas, y

3 min readby Sarah Lanius On Friday, June 24, Bus Rider Union members joined in the celebration at the dia de San Juan fiesta and also spoke with our neighbors about the proposed fare increases. You’ll be seeing us out and about at other public events as we work to raise awareness of the proposed fare increases for Sun Tran. Our message was simple: fare increases now is irresponsible to our climate and to the public; we need to have leadership and vision to increase ridership. As I spoke with people I found that most knew that the fares were being looked