Articles and Essays by Mark Engler

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The Catholic Worker Movement: A Definition

An entry for the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice.

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Mel Gibson’s True Passion

Gibson’s vulgar, anti-Semitic rant upon his arrest for drunk driving should prompt reexamination of The Passion of the Christ.

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The Birth of The Burning Bush

How the Center for the Working Poor began.

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Reverend Billy’s Holiday Shopocalypse

The Church of Stop Shopping hits the road.

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John Paul II’s Economic Ethics

The departed Pope’s vision of an alternative globalization should challenge narrow debate about “moral values.”

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Remembering Romero

With a White House that uses El Salvador as a model for Iraq, we still have much to learn from the assassination of Archbishop Romero twenty-five years ago.

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Against the God of Free Trade

The Free Trade Area of the Americas meets the Other Catholicism.

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In God’s Country

A review of Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

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Toward the “Rights of the Poor”

An Academic Article on Human Rights in Liberation Theology.