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...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
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...
If profit is the prime motive, the poor will always get the raw end of the deal. When lives are on the balance sheet, how should a credit program for the poor...
The Internet keeps its promise in Egypt. In the early days of the World Wide Web, HTML practitioners maintained the googly-eyed optimism of people who thought...
Church teaching is the same always and everywhere—except when it isn’t. Using the words “pope” and “condom” in the same sentence is bound to draw attention;...
The country’s cities may no longer be the epicenters of poverty. After 18 months of unemployment that has refused to budge below 9.6 percent, it will come as...
The land of Jesus’ birth may soon be without Christians to celebrate it. At eventide the square of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem lights up like a...
The new translation of the liturgy will speak volumes about the church that prays it. November 28, 2010, the First Sunday of Advent, marks the beginning not...
