After drafting my first formal memoir, You Lied to Me About God: A Memoir (North Atlantic Books), I shared it with one of my assistants, Katie Dougherty...
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For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) Japanese Breakfast (Dead Oceans, 2025) Japanese Breakfast rocketed into our music world in 2013...
“Ballet is a woman,” famously declared George Balanchine, the legendary choreographer who helped make The Nutcracker a holiday staple. At first glance, ballet...
In 1885, a 21-year-old Pennsylvania woman named Elizabeth Jane Cochran saw a column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch arguing that women exist primarily to have...
Since first grade, my daughter’s best friend has been a boy. They share what Dr. Seuss called “compatible weirdness”—cracking each other up with drawings or...
U.S. Catholic magazine celebrated its 90th anniversary with a celebration at Catholic Theological Union (CTU) on June 6. As well as members of the current...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify What does it mean to belong to a church—and a country—that doesn’t always welcome you? In this episode, Colin...
There’s a story people like to tell about St. Óscar Romero’s media power: that you could walk anywhere in El Salvador on Sundays when he was archbishop without...
Readings (Year C): Genesis 14:18 – 20Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 41 Corinthians 11:23 – 26Luke 9:11b – 17 Reflection: Do this in remembrance of me...
Seventeen-year-old Courtney Beatty was torn between going to a “No Kings” protest in Chicago or to the hometown celebration for Pope Leo XIV at the White Sox’s...
