Tainted foods from the agricultural-industrial complex are giving new meaning to your favorite casserole "surprise." No one would ever mistake me for...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
Unless action replaces delay, our denunciations of genocide are nothing but talk. Darfur has become a marquee global tragedy with celebrities such...
If you don't understand that, you're gonna love the new, old Latin Mass. The old German pastor of my first parish, Father Albert Henkel, was...
The abuse crisis will never be over without a full confession and a freely given absolution. The people of God in Los Angeles experienced collective jaw-drop...
The patient is ailing, the prognosis is poor. It's the nation's major medical emergency. There is an epidemic running through the nation's body...
Deferring infrastructure maintenance for war spending builds a bridge to nowhere. After watching coverage of the minneapolis-St. Paul I-35W bridge collapse...
We should honor God the Father by caring for our Mother Earth. A recent dispute among Christians brought the gospel to the front page once again in August. At...
Instead of dumping grain in poverty-stricken regions, we should be investing cash. Bags of wheat or rice, stamped "U.S.A." and pitched onto a...
Rather than threaten our Christian faith, exploring the language and spiritual practices of other religious traditions may instead make us better Catholics...
Forgive us our bad debts–many of which were made fraudulently to developing countries. Ecuador's new president, Rafael Correa, pledged during his...
