The CRL Magazine

World Food Crisis: What Must We Do? (Fall 2008)

This special issue on the current world food crisis seeks to better understand the underlying causes of the world food…

Rural Issues, Social Justice Concerns (Spring 2008)

What are rural communities doing to act justly? This issue follows from our previous one and highlights some activities that…

The Rural Parish: Gifts and Challenges (Fall 2007)

What is the situation of rural parishes and pastors? We ask and try to answer this question every ten years or…

Opportunity for Farm Bill Reform (Spring 2007)

Now is the time to advocate for fair and just policy in the 2007 Farm Bill. This issue will help prepare…

Food Procurement: Supporting Local Farms (Spring 2006)

Purchasing food directly from local farmers multiplies economic life in a community because each dollar circulates several times in the locality….

Sacred Foods: Food & Faith (Winter 2006)

What are the sacred dimensions of foods? Is there a gap between our values and our actions? This issue of Catholic…

Global Climate Change (Spring 2005)

What is our moral response? Scientific evidence tells us that the earth’s climate is changing and we can expect various impacts…

Vision for Farm and Food Policy (Winter 2005)

Visions of the Farm Bill’s Future. The next farm bill is scheduled for 2007. Already many groups are working on the…

Our (Catholic) Localism (Winter 2004)

Local economies, local food systems, local control: the word local seems tobe a reaction to the globalization process in general. This…