Tucked into eight acres on Long Island’s Shinnecock Bay, St. Joseph’s Villa has been a place of respite and retreat since 1960, tended by the Sisters of St...
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Readings (Year C): 2 Samuel 5:1 – 3Psalm 122:1 – 2, 3 – 4, 4 – 5Colossians 1:12 – 20Luke 23:35 – 43 Reflection: In God’s...
Your favorite pair of jeans—especially if they’re Calvin Klein, Levi’s, or Wranglers—may have been made in Lesotho. A small country surrounded by South Africa...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Catholic just war theory is a moral framework for evaluating warfare that dates back to St. Augustine but...
There are a lot of ways to measure a society and a country in decline. Economists like to track gross domestic product and national debt. Politicians and...
Decades ago, it was common in some communities for Catholic children to be clothed with a brown scapular when they received their first communion. The...
Anna (her name is changed here for safety reasons) was in a decades long marriage that she came to understand as emotionally abusive. When people outside of...
On July 6, 1535, Sir Thomas More climbed a rickety scaffold to his death. He had believed his friendship with King Henry VIII would protect him from the...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics...
Readings (Year C): Malachi 3:19 – 20aPsalm 98:5 – 6, 7 – 8, 92 Thessalonians 3:7 – 12Luke 21:5 – 19 Reflection: Persevere in...
