My Roman collar caused Mrs. H. to hesitate. She knew I was a gay Catholic priest, but she also recalled a sermon in which her pastor had said that unless gay...
Articles
On the seventh centenary on the birth of St. Bridget of Sweden, the pope sent a message to St. Bridget’s Order of the Most Holy Savior, praising its foundress...
Just because Rosemary Radford Ruether is getting close to retirement doesn’t mean she’s going to stop stirring things up. First as a civil rights activist and...
The jackhammer blast of gunfire ripped me from my sleep. Normally, late-night street sounds on Route de Delmas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti are no more alarming...
This article appeared in the April 2000 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 65, No. 4, page 49). We are Catholic, therefore we celebrate. We can celebrate for weeks...
By Tom McGrath This article appeared in the January 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 64, No. 1, pages 27-31). Should the church make a big deal out of the...
In the first half of the 20th century, when the church at least seemed more organized, an inquiring Catholic could draw on an organizational chart of the...
This article originally appeared in the July 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic. One day a man named Macarius quit climbing the corporate ladder and retired to the...
By Bishop Robert Morneau This article appeared in the June 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 64, No. 6, pages 34-37). Some years ago I came across a poem by...
One morning a several years back I had occasion to call a neighboring parish, the name of which is All Souls. Not having the number handy, I dialed information...
