CTI continues its five-year Inquiry on Religion & Global Concerns focusing this year on Religion and Economic Inequality. While poverty is a critical issue, our research inquiry will focus on inequality itself, the effects that a
difference in income and wealth makes. Theology, philosophy, and religious ethics rightly address the inequalities of status experienced in society. More attention needs to be given to the related issue of economic inequality and the normative questions it raises for the humanities, in dialogue with the sciences.
CTI, along with its new cohort of Resident Scholars, will be asking pertinent questions: What is the impact of economic inequality on society? What does extreme inequality do to an economic system? How does it affect political participation? What are the effects on personal wellbeing? How do the life sciences link it to public health? Is religion a variable in all of these areas?
There will be several opportunities throughout the coming year to join in this powerful conversation. The first is CTI's
Tea & Talk with Resident Scholars on Sunday, September 29, followed by a
public lecture on Inequality & Catholic Social Teaching on October 17. See details below.
