A few years ago I was having lunch with a friend who is an agnostic. I had just finished my annual eight-day retreat at my favorite place to pray, Eastern...
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UPDATE: The U.S. Catholic editors shared their reflections on being American Catholics last year. This year, we've asked readers to submit their own...
Your Personal Apostolate: Accepting and Sharing the Love of God by Michele Elena Bondi (Joseph Karl Publishing) Your Personal Apostolate takes you on a...
Booze and bullets are a lethal cocktail no matter how you shake it. Lovers of freedom suffered a temporary setback in May when Tennessee Govenor Phil Bredesen...
With the diocesan chancery ground zero in the sex abuse crisis, now is a good time to ask whether a renovation might be in order. “I want you to get up...
Catherine of Siena: A Passionate Life by Don Brophy (Bluebridge, 2010) Don Brophy’s new biography of St. Catherine of Siena is subtitled A Passionate...
The first language of Christian liturgy was Aramaic, the common language of the first Christians, who were Palestinian Jews. While Hebrew was the language of...
By Andrea Riccardi as told to Desmond O’Grady in a U.S. Catholic interview conducted by O’Grady. It had been the custom in Rome that the diocesan...
The founder of the international lay movement of the Sant’Egidio Community explains how his group has been able to build peace, one conflict at a time. When...
Why the new Mass prayers may be confusing. I was leading a group discussion on the merits of the renewed liturgy of Vatican II when John, a middle-aged...