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...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
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...
Readings (Year B) Acts 10:34a, 37-43Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23Colossians 3:1-4John 20:1-9 Reflection: Life out of death In the opening line of the gospel...
America, we have a gun problem. Gun violence continues to speak louder than our love for one another. How could we forget the brutal assassinations of Medgar...
Of all the great Triduum teachers, trees captivate me the most. I make a point to wander through my local arboretum each Good Friday. These Midwestern trees...
I have spent the majority of the past three years of my life either pregnant or breastfeeding. While my collective 16 months of pregnancy with children born...
