A 19th-century mode of transport may be the answer to our current environmental woes. A future of diminishing energy and transportation resources...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
A first-time mom sees Easter anew through the eyes of her infant son. For Lent last year, I gave up Easter. To be more precise, I gave up the Easter and Holy...
By Tom McGrath This article appeared in the January 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 64, No. 1, pages 27-31). Should the church make a big deal out of the...
By John Delaney This article appeared in the November 1983 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 48, No. 11, pages 31-33). Among the Catholic customs that went out the...
There isn’t much sense talking about “roots” unless you can also point to flowers, fruits, leaves, fronds, seeds. Thus we point to what the poets call the...
Religious devotions are a little like lost-and-found objects. Something gets lost, at least in the sense of losing sight of it. And then we come on it again...
