A holy-card priest is not the best patron to lead 21st-century ministers into the future. Father Albert Henkel was a good priest. Though gruff and grumbly on...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
The St. Francis de Sales Parish Book Club meets in the basement room in the rectory where Father Matthias used to run the parish weight-lifting club, until he...
The hungry of the world make an uncommonly good investment opportunity. An online investment board hosts a lively chat among a gaggle of eager Wall Street...
Father Don leans forward in his chair. The air of the confessional is quiet, cool, and light. The small Polish priest is in all-black attire, save for the...
"Banning" Mexico City's street kids only moves their plight from sight. If you have ever visited Mexico City you may have enjoyed their antics as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
