Catholic Voices

First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.

Choking on ashes

I grew up in a family thick with cops and firemen in a New York suburb peopled by cops and firemen, so it was with a special dread that I watched a churning...

Union made in China

Workers might have to go half way around the world to celebrate Labor Day this year. In the United States the union movement still endures a regular...

Little house in the big city

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...

Blessed are you: John Paul II

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...