As the holiday season once again approaches, you can already almost see the cheeriness in the air (and the Halloween decorations filling up your grocery store...
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Why do we like to watch people shoot one another? On film and television screens, we shock, frighten, and torment ourselves with scenes of killing. We scare...
The same day I learn napkin meanslittle tablecloth, a silver-spotted skipper lands on a paper napkin crumpledinto a fist on my picnic table. Brown and stout...
I was nervous before I met Ruth Burrows for the first time at the Quidenham Carmelite Monastery. Here I was, about to encounter one of the greatest spiritual...
During the Second World War, Joseph Stalin is said to have asked, “How many divisions has the pope?” The answer, of course, is none; the pope has neither a...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify In this episode of Just Politics, the conversation explores the question: who can afford to get sick in the United...
Growing up, I thought of the rosary as a prayer for grandmas. It was—to an active, impatient child like me—a boring prayer the grown-ups forced me to say on...
Readings (Year A): Isaiah 55:6–9Psalm 145:2-3, 8–9, 17–18Philippians 1:20c–24, 27aMatthew 20:1–16a Reflection: Divine justice eclipses human selfishness God is...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
The September 11 terrorist attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead left an indelible mark on all of us who remember it. Many still mourn the tragic loss of...
