Catholic Voices

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

Here comes everybody else

Our color in the Crayola box of "flesh tones" shouldn't determine our place in the church. Corporate reorganizations have become so common that...

Hot enough for you?

The world's poor face an even bleaker future than polar bears, thanks to global warming.   Global warming has proved one of the rare issues capable of...

Womb for rent

   Have infertile couples taken a maternity leave of their senses? Beginning in the mid-1970s, Americans watched generations of manufacturing jobs...

Lab partners

Instead of shooting rhetorical spitballs in the other's general direction, boosters of both science and religion should start sharing a desk. In the...

Home sweet biohazard

There's no place like home, as long as parents prevent it from becoming toxic. Thoroughly modern parents of the late 20th century might have cracked open a...

Make it personal

Millions have headed for the exits without getting the best of what we have to offer. "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior...

Mea maxima culpa

   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...

Reality bites back

   New show ideas are endless-and depressing -when real life is the true basis of TV. Thank you, Heidi Montag and your castmates-I mean friends-from...