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...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
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...
I worked for more than a decade as the editor of a busy little weekly newspaper, and I often complained that the people who stopped by my office “just to...
The nation's most vulnerable children are getting the short end of the spending stick. Spending more and getting less: sound familiar? A recent assessment...
The high pitch of pro-life advocacy could heed some old-fashioned parental guidance. I normally wouldn't pass as an applause line, but Archbishop Michael...
The Body of Christ is the best medicine for body and soul, regardless of whether we are "worthy" to receive him. "Are you a priest?" There...
Fast food has meant a slow death for thousands. Why aren't we doing more about it? If you knew of an obvious public safety hazard that contributed to the...
Catholics should find a way to welcome couples whose paths to the altar don't go straight down the center aisle. Full disclosure: I hate weddings...
