Billions of the world's poorest are being denied even the most basic natural resource. Most of us in the west have grown used to thinking about...
Margin Notes
Here's a new strategy for victory in Iraq: surrender to the things we say we believe. Lord have mercy, for we persist in our obstinate ways...
The disfiguring effects of the current war will be seen long after the smoke has cleared. Demining specialists are fanning out across southern...
The U.S. should be a good host and protect the migrant workers who knock on our door. In the colonial period the destitute and desperate escaping the...
A shockingly awful public relations campaign is underway for yet another war. We get all kinds of mail here at U.S. Catholic: scripture interpretation pasted...
Tainted foods from the agricultural-industrial complex are giving new meaning to your favorite casserole "surprise." No one would ever mistake me for...
Unless action replaces delay, our denunciations of genocide are nothing but talk. Darfur has become a marquee global tragedy with celebrities such...
The patient is ailing, the prognosis is poor. It's the nation's major medical emergency. There is an epidemic running through the nation's body...
Deferring infrastructure maintenance for war spending builds a bridge to nowhere. After watching coverage of the minneapolis-St. Paul I-35W bridge collapse...
Instead of dumping grain in poverty-stricken regions, we should be investing cash. Bags of wheat or rice, stamped "U.S.A." and pitched onto a...
