The old adage “Don’t talk politics at the dinner table” never made sense to me. It certainly wasn’t going to fly at the last family Christmas party. My...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
Hi. I’m Jennon. I am a middle child, a Virgo, an INFP, an obliger. I prefer dogs to cats, blue to red, city trips to beach vacations. Once I was sorted into...
A group of Catholic ministers gathered last Friday to reflect on the ongoing clergy abuse and cover-up crisis. The pain that some ordained men inflicted on...
I’ll never forget the time hope showed up sporting a pair of geriatric shoes. She stood slightly hunched over on a trail of asphalt one gray evening. To her...
I try to maintain a moderate diet of news consumption. I will put on a political podcast while fixing dinner. I read the New Yorker while riding the train...
“This will be the most important election in our lifetimes.” It seems like we hear that as each new election comes upon us. And, as a political scientist, I...
This love one another stuff always confused me. When the priest would call the congregation to love one another during Mass, I was one baffled kid. Although...
My wife asked me a week before school started this September if I had remembered to purchase my youngest child’s “school toolbox.” For the uninitiated, that’s...
The apparent murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi brought a renewed focus on U.S.-Saudi relations in October. Turkish investigators report that...
Aileen Carlin Giannelli died on September 8. By itself, that’s probably not something most readers are interested in. Statistically, perhaps as many as 46,000...
