Catholic Voices

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

How green is your faith?

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...

No more CARE packages

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...

More than words

Rather than threaten our Christian faith, exploring the language and spiritual practices of other religious traditions may instead make us better Catholics...

Bank robbery

Forgive us our bad debts–many of which were made fraudulently to developing countries. Ecuador's new president, Rafael Correa, pledged during his...

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...

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...