Nairobi, Kenya is a unique and complicated city. A cosmopolitan mixture of traditions and peoples, humans and animals exist in a delicate relationship. Just...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
My favorite movie as a child was All Dogs Go to Heaven, an animated tale about a German shepherd named Charlie who is killed by his Bulldog business partner...
Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis has implored the church to turn to the peripheries. Rarely have words been put into such direct action as...
Ever since I first learned the Hail Mary, I have loved prayer. Perhaps Sister taught us the Glory Be first. It’s shorter, more repetitious; if you know the...
Recently, my sister celebrated her “re-baptism” as a member of the American Baptist church. Like me and her other siblings, she was baptized and confirmed...
An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians By Paul Moses (NYU Press, 2015) Al Capone, Mother Cabrini, Mayor Jimmy Walker, and...
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When I was a college freshman—at the time a liberal arts major—my creative writing instructor told us that the way to learn how to write stories was to read...
While the world’s focus has properly shifted to the plight of Syrian refugees pressing against Europe’s southern borders, the brutal conflict in Yemen has...
Unpaid workers of the world unite! OK, as a rallying cry, that could use some work, but it’s not bad as a simple descriptor of a growing and troubling...
