As the debt-ceiling debate stumbles toward resolution, this May 2005 column about the 2006 federal budget shows how little things have changed when it comes to...
Catholic Voices
The modern world threatens the existence of a small group of our own species. Multinational mining interests, illegal logging, and slash-and-burn agriculture...
Would we so willingly cut programs for the poor if we knew them by name? When I was in high school, I bagged groceries for my pocket money, and I often saw a...
Caring for the environment is a moral issue, a Catholic leader said in a recent speech shared with U.S. Catholic. The basis of Catholic concern over climate...
Can the $300 home add dignity to the lives of the world’s poorest people? According to U.N. projections, a trend of demographic concentration in the world’s...
The energy policy of the future should be sung to the tune of “Here Comes the Sun.” Events out of Japan persist in an irradiated gloom. The disaster unfolding...
How do we honor a pope whose complexities are still fresh in our memory? As Pope John Paul II is beatified May 1 before hundreds of thousands in St. Peter’s...
Don’t paint public workers as a public enemies; they’re just working for the common good. A few days after Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki issued a...
Lent is a good time to ask whether the stuff we hold on to is actually holding us back. Extra Space Storage is the bluntly self-descriptive name of one of many...
A bishop’s authority cannot replace the graced conscience of the baptized. I’ll never forget my first serious argument with a priest: I was a senior in high...
