Lord have mercy, for we persist in our obstinate ways, and we close our hearts to you, hiding our shame behind our pride. And so this oddly unreal war...
Catholic Voices
First-person reflections on scriptural interpretation, theology, and Catholic social teaching.
The disfiguring effects of the current war will be seen long after the smoke has cleared. Demining specialists are fanning out across southern...
The U.S. should be a good host and protect the migrant workers who knock on our door. In the colonial period the destitute and desperate escaping the...
Though the pop hits of U2 may not be coming to a Catholic church near you,the latest eucharistic fad still has a lesson to offer. On this...
We get all kinds of mail here at U.S. Catholic: scripture interpretation pasted together from magazine headlines with biblical verses twisted in a manner King...
Tainted foods from the agricultural-industrial complex are giving new meaning to your favorite casserole "surprise." No one would ever mistake me for...
Unless action replaces delay, our denunciations of genocide are nothing but talk. Darfur has become a marquee global tragedy with celebrities such...
If you don't understand that, you're gonna love the new, old Latin Mass. The old German pastor of my first parish, Father Albert Henkel, was...
The abuse crisis will never be over without a full confession and a freely given absolution. The people of God in Los Angeles experienced collective jaw-drop...
There is an epidemic running through the nation’s body politic that kills an estimated 18,000 Americans each year. It’s called lack of health...
