Ken Homan

Ken Homan

Br. Ken Homan is a Jesuit of the Midwest Province currently serving as an assistant professor of U.S. history at St. Louis University. His research focuses on the Catholic Church and the labor movement in the Midwest. Homan is a board member of the Catholic Labor Network and actively engaged in labor and community organizing.

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A blue laundry basket filled with clothes (Unsplash/Annie Spratt)

New book offers fresh perspective on work through a Catholic social teaching lens

NCR Book Club: Kate Ward's Making a Life expands commonly held understandings of work and reevaluates worker justice, looking at the whole person, not merely person-as-employee.

Jesuit Br. Ken Homan; Colleen Betti, field technician and Ph.D. candidate; Robin Proudie, a Missouri descendant; and Laura Masur, professor of the Catholic University of America at the plantation dig site at St. Inigoes in Maryland (Kevin Porter)

What descendants felt during a dig at a Jesuit-owned plantation

Commentary: Over the summer, several descendants of enslaved people joined a dig on a former plantation owned by the Jesuits. NCR asked four people who participated in the dig to share their reflections.

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