Our place in the church isn’t determined by politics or policy. If there’s one lesson Americans can take from the last 12 months of our political...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
We should be helping America’s young people really be all that they can be. Despite the grim toll taken in what is becoming a war of attrition in Afghanistan...
A casual encounter in Greenland has an American pro-life activist gritting her teeth. I was in the Arctic Circle, in Greenland...
What was once such a lovely place is becoming the country’s financial flophouse. While most of us have watched, mouths agape, as the eye-rubbing economic clown...
Over three decades of Mass-going, I’ve explored pretty much every avenue of distraction to make the time pass: pestering my brothers, making faces at buddies...
Countries who live in glass houses should take care when criticizing others’ anti-drug efforts. Bolivia received a little diplomatic scolding from the...
There’s no shortage of programs to draw missing Catholics back to church, but few can boast of their efforts in a single diocese as “an increase of 92,000...
It is in the natural order of things: Parents die and their children live on after them. If it happens and those parents are themselves young, it feels...
I worked for more than a decade as the editor of a busy little weekly newspaper, and I often complained that the people who stopped by my office “just to...
The nation's most vulnerable children are getting the short end of the spending stick. Spending more and getting less: sound familiar? A recent assessment...
