Fifty years after the game-changing council a new generation helps the church respond to today’s signs of the times. Rather than taking another nostalgic look...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
The world needs a wake-up call to save a population at risk of meeting a violent end. What is happening today in the Nuba mountains is exactly a carbon copy of...
Imagine a television commercial for Vatican II: Hundreds of bishops are gathered in a local beer joint. One prelate lifts his frothy stein in a toast...
In our December 2005 issue, Paul Boudreau reflected on the 40th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary...
Disease and disaster might challenge our belief in God, but despite all that, we must keep the faith. One of the most memorable moments of my life was when I...
We shouldn’t let sensationalized crime become an occasion of sin. I once heard a bishop explain to confirmation candidates what it means to, in the words of...
Bonding with those most in need can yield big returns. To paraphrase Winston Churchill’s famous observation on democracy: Capitalism is the worst system in the...
The human cost of the war on terror burdens those who fight it. Americans have grown accustomed to the long list of injuries suffered by the veterans of the...
Banning the Big Gulp isn’t enough to tip the scales in America’s obesity epidemic. Gluttony is the only one of the not-so-magnificent seven that is literally a...
After reading Father Bill Tkachuk’s Sounding Board on admission policies at Catholic elementary schools, U.S. Catholic production editor Tina Herman...
