Catholic Voices

Watch your steps

Mass could use the hard dose of reality offered by those recovering from addiction.  I go to church every Sunday with a bunch of addicts. Well...

Will teach for tenure

Glaring double standards on workers' rights are far from a class act. When you think of the typical college professor the image of a tweed-afflicted...

Above and beyond the call

U.S. women religious deserve better than the nunsense of a Vatican investigation. It must be hard being a Sister in America. You spend a century creating a...

My life after death

Ten years ago, on Memorial Day of 1999, I received the call every parent dreads. It was from a detective in Steubenville, Ohio. He asked me if I knew where my...

The drone wars

High-tech warfare administers death from a great distance. We heard a lot over the early years of the late (once and future?) War on Terror about weapons of...

Out of the depths

Faith helps U.S. Catholic readers see the light even as they walk through the valley of darkness. Unemployment, illness, a loved one's death-everyone can...

Commencement duress

Catholics shouldn't let single-issue politics deprive us of our hard-won place at the heart of America's democracy. Ah, spring. A warming sun melts the...

What do you ask for this child?

Baptism might not have exactly saved this baby’s life, but it showed his family the power of love and faith. As a religious educator, I have always...

When enough is enough

Why a future of endless economic growth is not the cure for what ails the earth. After wandering around an academic wilderness for 30 or so years, a fella...