If you want peace, cultivate creation,” Pope Benedict XVI said in his 2010 World Day of Peace reflection, arguably a message not just for the new year...
Catholic Voices
A deal that sounds too good to be true probably is-especially for subsistence farmers. Africa’s savannahs and plains, even its smoldering desert dunes...
Our place in the church isn’t determined by politics or policy. If there’s one lesson Americans can take from the last 12 months of our political...
We should be helping America’s young people really be all that they can be. Despite the grim toll taken in what is becoming a war of attrition in Afghanistan...
A casual encounter in Greenland has an American pro-life activist gritting her teeth. I was in the Arctic Circle, in Greenland...
What was once such a lovely place is becoming the country’s financial flophouse. While most of us have watched, mouths agape, as the eye-rubbing economic clown...
Over three decades of Mass-going, I’ve explored pretty much every avenue of distraction to make the time pass: pestering my brothers, making faces at buddies...
Countries who live in glass houses should take care when criticizing others’ anti-drug efforts. Bolivia received a little diplomatic scolding from the...
There’s no shortage of programs to draw missing Catholics back to church, but few can boast of their efforts in a single diocese as “an increase of 92,000...
It is in the natural order of things: Parents die and their children live on after them. If it happens and those parents are themselves young, it feels...
