The Soulwork of Justice By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (Orbis Books, 2025) “The world of social activism nurtures grandiosity,” Wesley Granberg-Michaelson...
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From Alaska’s pale blue glaciers to Florida’s coral reef, from Iowa’s lush wheatfields to California’s giant sequoias, from the vast Great Lakes to the adobe...
God bless you and keep you,God smile on you and gift you,God look you full in the face and make you prosper. —Numbers 6:24-26 (The Message) The priest blessed...
In 2024, the apologetics organization Catholic Answers launched a chatbot, affectionately called Father Justin, with the purpose of providing “sound answers to...
In Their Own Words is a new web column from U.S. Catholic. In these essays, academics and other experts provide short, evidence-based explanations of prominent...
When Jesus was condemned he took up his cross but then fell. His mother helped him up as did another, who wiped his face, but still he fell again. After...
Readings (Year A): Exodus 17:3–7Psalm 95:1–2, 6–7, 8–9Romans 5:1–2, 5–8John 4:5–42 Reflection: For all who are weary and heavily burdened It seems everyone on...
Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (1967), was panned because Harvey Keitel’s gangster character exhibited what one critic...
No one wants to hear, “You have a rare disease,” but my neurologist announced it when she diagnosed me with erythromelalgia. This neurovascular syndrome...
The U.S. Catholic bishops’ guidelines for Lenten fasting and abstinence absolve children from the dietary restrictions, but as a family we have always chosen...
