Modern Catholic social thought is typically dated back to Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor). It’s not that Catholicism had...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
Readings (Year B) Acts 9:26–31Psalm 22:26–27, 28, 30, 31–321 John 3:18–24John 15:1-8 Reflection: Constant conversion In today’s first reading, we hear that...
Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: My pastor often performs magic tricks during his homily to illustrate the message of the day’s...
Readings Acts 4:81–2Psalm 118:1, 8–9, 21–23, 26, 28, 291 John 3:1–2John 10:11–18 Reflection: The rejected stone and inclusive communities When I think of how...
On the morning of March 20, 2020, my wife fainted in the bathroom. She was five weeks pregnant. I arrived just in time to grab hold of her, thus preventing her...
You can be forgiven for not noticing it, but the nuclear bomb became a global outlaw in January. No ticker tape parades followed after this sudden outburst of...
Readings (Year B) Acts 3:13–15, 17–19Psalm 4:2, 4, 7–8, 91 John 2:1–5Luke 24:35–48 Reflection: Marked by human experience In today’s second reading from John...
Researching COVID-19, scientists used a human cell line called “HeLa” to isolate and identify how the virus infects human cells. HeLa cells reveal both the...
I remember my first radio. One Christmas morning in the early ’60s, I unwrapped a tan, boxlike radio with a sloping face and three dials: an on/off switch, a...
Readings Acts 4:32–35Psalm 118:2–4, 13–15, 22–241 John 5:1–6John 20:19–31 Reflection: A commandment that frees Over the last few weeks, the news cycle became...
