Catholic Voices

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

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...

Let’s bring back patron saints

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...