One day a friend of mine called a classmate from college with whom she had not talked in years, only to learn that the woman’s 7-month-old baby had...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
After the Wall Street wipeout, in a world full of hurt, we’re still our brothers’ keepers. With the carnage on Wall Street con- tinuing at a jaw...
When I bought her the valentine, she smiled, but I knew the card was more for me than her. She didn't really know what it said. I read the...
Advent always opens me up. Just when I think I am in control of my life and ministry, I am confronted by the challenges of a new liturgical year. The prophets...
The halls of Riuniti Hospital in Reggio Calabria were bustling that summer day with white-coated doctors and orderlies. The P.A. system blared as southern...
Families separated. Millions left for dead. Do we share some of the blame? Patrick Mwnyamahord knows where his father is buried because a neighbor...
New classes of "usable" nuclear weapons are on the Pentagon's menu. Who's buying? Bunker Buster the Friendly Nuke was launched by the...
This article is adapted from Thomas Lynch’s essay collections, The Undertaking (W.W. Norton and Co., 1997) and Bodies in Motion and at Rest (W.W. Norton...
It must have been about the time I was chopping up the melon for my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter's breakfast that the angst set in. Here it was Good...
Every Sunday after Mass, I pat Jesus big toe. Let me hasten to explain that Jesus is made of wood. Like the little boy who preferred his mother over prayer to...
