This article is adapted from Thomas Lynch’s essay collections, The Undertaking (W.W. Norton and Co., 1997) and Bodies in Motion and at Rest (W.W. Norton...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
Every Sunday after Mass, I pat Jesus big toe. Let me hasten to explain that Jesus is made of wood. Like the little boy who preferred his mother over prayer to...
The Mass is a genius, and I’ll tell you why. Because each and every Mass celebrated over the course of many centuries in many lands under every conceivable...
Families separated. Millions left for dead. Do we share some of the blame? Patrick Mwnyamahord knows where his father is buried because a neighbor showed him...
Sometimes the toxic waste is not just in babies’ diapers. The samples reviewed by the researchers at the Washington based Environmental Working Group...
A recent United Nations report offers a sobering assessment on the condition of women. "WOMAN'S WORKS IS NEVER DONE" is an adage that is...
Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B. on the church in the world People all over this globe, with all their racial and cultural differences, have to learn to...
The preselection technology that will advance the future's construction of the perfect child already exists. Prefertilization genetic screening and...
Third World women could be the new recruits in the global war on poverty. Since commodities first changed hands for cash, the women...
Billions of the world's poorest are being denied even the most basic natural resource. Most of us in the west have grown used to thinking about...
