Catholic Voices

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

Prenatal testing

The preselection technology that will advance the future's construction of the perfect child already exists. Prefertilization genetic screening and...

We can be better than bitter

Rome is an amazing city. I lived there as a college student years ago. I was just 20 at the time, and it was an eye-opening experience for a kid who'd led...

They can do it

Third World women could be the new recruits in the global war on poverty.   Since commodities first changed hands for cash, the women...

Lean into Lent

I’m coming to believe that the ultimate goal of this conversion is not to muscle our way to changed behaviors, but rather to loosen up enough to change...

War wounds

   Here's a new strategy for victory in Iraq: surrender to the things we say we believe. Lord have mercy, for we persist in our obstinate ways...

Be our guest?

The U.S. should be a good host and protect the migrant workers who knock on our door.   In the colonial period the destitute and desperate escaping the...

Anglican idol

   Though the pop hits of U2 may not be coming to a Catholic church near you,the latest eucharistic fad still has a lesson to offer. On this...

Iran spam

A shockingly awful public relations campaign is underway for yet another war. We get all kinds of mail here at U.S. Catholic: scripture interpretation pasted...