The church as we know it won’t last if its broad middle begins to shrink. Pop culture journalists had the brass ring of celebrity stories dropped on them in...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
Mother Earth can’t take much more of her human offspring’s hell-raising. Scientists tell us that, by their count, the universe is somewhere between 13 and 14...
Is there really only one way to make a Catholic household? Early in June, just as the U.S. Senate was debating a constitutional amendment banning same-sex...
Law must always be tempered by mercy if justice is to be truly served. Excommunication was once considered a passé feature of the ancient church, conjuring up...
Booze and bullets are a lethal cocktail no matter how you shake it. Lovers of freedom suffered a temporary setback in May when Tennessee Govenor Phil Bredesen...
President Obama wants to lock up nukes—but he isn’t about to throw away the key. The 2008 election of Barack Obama was arguably a culmination of the hope...
For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. On goes the alarm: 6 a.m. thirteen minutes of news, weather, and traffic. 6:13. Out...
A little counseling might help get the Israel-U.S. partnership back on track. Every relationship can have its rocky patches. Plenty of marriages that have...
The sex abuse crisis should teach us that it takes more than a seminary to raise a priest. In the spring of my first year of college, I wrote my bishop and...
Bad news about the church can be a good opportunity to remember why we’re here in the first place. With some reluctance I have to admit that one reason I am a...
