What does it mean to be Black and Catholic? It means that I come to my church fully functioning; that doesn’t frighten you, does it? It means that… I bring...
Theology
Read about Catholic theology, including scholarly discussions, ethical considerations, and spiritual insights.
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In the Christian tradition, “apocalypse” simply means revelation, or unveiling. Yet somewhere along the...
A young man approaches Jesus and asks, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus tells him to follow the commandments and love God and his...
“Have you seen The Chosen?” When the streaming series first began in 2019, this was an innocuous question. But now, the same question can feel like a litmus...
Do Catholics have to believe in Marian apparitions, Eucharistic miracles, or the Shroud of Turin? Or practice devotions like wearing the brown scapular or...
Carmen Nanko-Fernández is the director of the Hispanic Theology and Ministry Program at Catholic Theological Union. When Bronx native Carmen Nanko-Fernández...
“No one is useless and no one is expendable. This also means finding ways to include those on the peripheries of life. For they have another way of looking at...
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible.”...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
Lay-Lay. That’s what my 4-year-old nephew calls me because he has trouble saying my name the way most people say it — Brandon. When he first started...
