Articles

Won’t you be my neighbor?

Friendly meetings between Catholics and Muslims can make it a beautiful day in the neighborhood for all God's children.   A couple of Muslim children...

Lean into Lent

I’m coming to believe that the ultimate goal of this conversion is not to muscle our way to changed behaviors, but rather to loosen up enough to change...

Pardon our dust

We live in a messy time of transition in the Catholic Church. Sociologist Bryan T. Froehle offers four tools to help us through the renovation. During Lent we...

War wounds

   Here's a new strategy for victory in Iraq: surrender to the things we say we believe. Lord have mercy, for we persist in our obstinate ways...

Be our guest?

The U.S. should be a good host and protect the migrant workers who knock on our door.   In the colonial period the destitute and desperate escaping the...

Anglican idol

   Though the pop hits of U2 may not be coming to a Catholic church near you,the latest eucharistic fad still has a lesson to offer. On this...

How quickly we forget

We owe it to today's immigrants to be honest about the difficulties and prejudices against the huddled masses who came before them. On my father's...

Iran spam

A shockingly awful public relations campaign is underway for yet another war. We get all kinds of mail here at U.S. Catholic: scripture interpretation pasted...