Catholic Voices

First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.

Frosted mini-nukes!

New classes of "usable" nuclear weapons are on the Pentagon's menu. Who's buying?   Bunker Buster the Friendly Nuke was launched by the...

Grave Responsibilities

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...

The Mass is a genius . . .

The Mass is a genius, and I’ll tell you why. Because each and every Mass celebrated over the course of many centuries in many lands under every conceivable...

Not-so-special delivery

Sometimes the toxic waste is not just in babies' diapers. The samples reviewed by the researchers at the Washington based Environmental Working Group...

Our sisters’ keeper

A recent United Nations report offers a sobering assessment on the condition of women.   "WOMAN'S WORKS IS NEVER DONE" is an adage that is...

My greatest hope

Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. on the church in the world People all over this globe, with all their racial and cultural differences, have to learn to...