Catholic Voices

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

Not all roads lead to Rome

The diverse challenges of a struggling world need local solutions from a flexible church. Among the theologians of the Second Vatican Council, the name of...

Death takes a holiday

But the question is whether executions will take a permanent vacation in the United States. Something didn't happen in October that you may not have...

His-teria

Despite terror that women are staging a coup de church, the numbers just don't add up. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to church, a new menace...

Separation anxiety

The day after an evangelical Baptist preacher won the GOP primary, with religion set to again play a major role in the 2008 presidential election, Northwestern...

Separation anxiety

   The day after an evangelical Baptist preacher won the GOP primary, with religion set to again play a major role in the 2008 presidential election...

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...