A trillion-dollar price tag isn’t the only cost of war. While most of the Country’s attention is fixed on how best to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
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...
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...
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...
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...