Since 1963 the church has taught that Catholics can be cremated, abolishing its longstanding prohibition of the practice. Cremation was fairly widespread in...
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Recently, the United States Supreme Court decided that an amendment in Michigan’s state constitution banning the use of affirmative action at public...
By Alice Camille and Paul Boudreau (Franciscan Media, 2014) For Mother Théodore Guérin and her sisters, the journey through the wilds of Indiana...
February is off to a busy start. Make some time to check out these good reads: February 2015 Holy Smokes! Golden Guidance from Notre Dame’s Championship...
Editors’ Note: In the February 2015 issue of U.S. Catholic, author Michelle Bearden profiled five Catholic scientists who have found that faith has had a...
c. 2015 Religion News Service MUNDELEIN, Ill. (RNS) Charged by Cardinal Francis George with the vague task of “jump-starting evangelism” in...
When Susan Ross first broke into the world of academia as a Catholic theologian, she was one of the few women in what had traditionally been a male-dominated...
c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) It looks like the death penalty may be on life support. January was set to be the deadliest month for U.S. executions in...
Directed by Ridley Scott (20th Century Fox, 2014) Exodus: Gods and Kings tells what should be a familiar story: A man raised as Pharaoh’s son discovers...
Although a native New Yorker, I went to Boston to teach in 1991. In the mid-1990s, the sex abuse scandals in the church broke. One of the first lessons that we...
