Even after nearly 50 years, the permanent diaconate still confuses some people. If deacons aren’t priests, are they laypeople? No—they are ordained. Some...
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Can a corporation have religious beliefs? The Hobby Lobby decision looms. On March 29 of this year, thousands of people across the United States went on a...
Summer is quickly approaching! Consider these good reads to fill your road-tripping, park-sitting, and summer-vacationing book list: June 2014 Spiritual...
In 2012 Sister Simone Campbell and the Catholic social justice lobby NETWORK launched the “Nuns on the Bus” tour to “live the biblical demand for social...
Directed by Darren Aronofsky (Paramount Pictures, 2014) How do you hear a story again for the first time? This is a perennial challenge for all biblical films...
If religious experiences can be seen on a brain scan or made more likely by a variation in a particular gene, what does that tell us about God and faith? It...
Paul Ryan says he has a cure for poverty, but the evidence says otherwise. Pity poor Paul Ryan. Even as the Wisconsin congressman tries to reinvent himself as...
In our May 2014 issue, the editors at U.S. Catholic interviewed theologian Emily Reimer-Barry, professor of theology at the University of San Diego about the...
According to Catholic Rural Life, what we eat is a moral issue. How do we use an informed conscience to make moral eating decisions? 1. By placing an emphasis...
By Christian Smith et al (Oxford, 2014) In his latest installment of books on the lives of young adults, Christian Smith, the lead author of Young Catholic...
