The global fight against HIV and AIDS requires all the means at our disposal. Thirty-three million. Twenty-five million. Eleven million. These numbers are...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
Among the many victims of the Iraq war have been our own fellow Catholics. I have a confession to make: Back in 2003, when the Bush administration directed our...
Pumping up priesthood at the expense of lay ministry is no way to renew the church. The full, conscious, and active participation of laypeople in the liturgy...
Catholic institutions should play host to this year’s electoral contests. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Communion, election-year...
Christians can manage to be the one church of Christ without agreeing on everything. A church divided over the role of women, at war over the place of gays and...
If there’s anything that will turn you off democracy, it has to be a U.S. presidential election. From obnoxious robo-calls to venomous attack ads to an inbox...
The right paperwork can save lives among the world’s stateless people. After a record turnout of nearly 60 million Americans marched through voting...
Let’s melt these nationalists’ cold, cold hearts and build an Arctic circle of cooperation. Retreating ice briefly turned the Arctic circle into an...
Our agricultural priorities should be on filling hungry bellies, not fuel tanks. The gloomy gus of economics, the Rev. Thomas Malthus, was the guy who put the...
How to deal with the immigration “problem”? Give people a real choice on migration. It may surprise red-white-and-blue Americans fixated on...
