NOTE TO CHAIR POWELL: DITCH YOUR SKETCHY 2% SOLUTION!At the Federal Reserve, it’s crunch time. Its chair, inflation hawk Jerome Powell, soon will tell the world whether he’ll impose yet…Mar 21, 2023Mar 21, 2023
Rebel that I am, I still love ChristmasAnybody who’s read my book, Catholic Women Confront Their Church, or my commentary in Salon.com and NBCNews.com THINK knows that I’ve been…Dec 20, 2022Dec 20, 2022
When Ukraine seemed on the brink of better thingsAs Ukraine faces Soviet soldiers, bombs and tanks, I grieve for the 20 Ukrainian reformers I met in December 2006. I was working for the…Feb 24, 2022Feb 24, 2022
It’s the end of 2021: Why am I so nostalgic for last year’s Covid Christmas?Remember December 2020? I was so grateful to see my daughter after a nine-month absence. She carefully quarantined herself for about a…Dec 31, 2021Dec 31, 2021
The Sack of WashingtonIf we ever needed a metaphor for the rending of the national soul, yesterday’s riot provided it. The U.S. Capitol is a living, breathing…Jan 7, 2021Jan 7, 2021
Hysterectomy allegations prove bishops’ indifference to women’s livesAfter so many reports of so many immigrant detainees being exposed to COVID-19 in cramped and unsafe quarters, and not being given the…Sep 18, 20201Sep 18, 20201
COVID-19 harms immigrants and their children: Does anybody care?Last December, Customs and Border Patrol agents in San Diego barred doctors from giving flu shots to children in detention centers. The…Sep 1, 2020Sep 1, 2020
Would my Italian grandparents recognize this version of America?Among the few possessions I inherited from my grandmother is a sepia-toned picture of her and my grandfather, taken a few years after they…Jul 2, 2020Jul 2, 2020
The Path from US Bishops’ Silence to the Screams of Immigrant ChildrenI’m happy that US Catholic bishops, following the lead of Pope Francis, have condemned the separation of families seeking asylum in the…Jun 23, 2018Jun 23, 2018
Irish vote does not celebrate abortion; it recognizes the moral agency of womenWhen I was pregnant with my daughter 30 years ago, I declined amniocentesis, which could have predicted developmental disabilities or other…May 28, 2018May 28, 2018
