There has been a death in my family—two actually, or 60,000, depending on how you count. To be specific, neither of my two beehives survived the winter of...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
Perhaps only the global drug trade has been less scrutinized than the $70 billion annual market in conventional weapons. The world community took a significant...
Guest editorial Visiting from Michigan after overcast hikes in the Berkshires with family, the sun felt good. Daily Mass had been delayed an hour till 9 a.m...
Cutting out the middleman may increase the value of our charitable donations. Most savvy charity “shoppers” have learned that a little homework is required to...
Will Pope Francis listen to voices calling for change in the church? Media coverage of the election of Pope Francis has returned over and over to his humility...
Pope Benedict kept us guessing—especially on matters of social justice. Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to become the first pope since Celestine V in 1294 to...
Pope Benedict’s final act may be one of his best gifts to the church. So were you shocked, just shocked, when Pope Benedict XVI resigned back in February...
The religious landscape is shifting. Don’t hunker down—get creative. It was a story that could have appeared in any city newspaper: Historic old church faces...
Our best shot at protecting the common good isn’t to keep loading up on guns. A few weeks before Adam Lanza began his shooting rampage among children in...
We can’t afford to lose our children to the ravages of war. Surely the hardest faces to look upon during armed conflict are those of terrified or wounded...
