“You are who you are,” says Maybe Burke, a trans artist and educator. “No one can tell you who you are but you. Whoever you know yourself to be, you are right...
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Readings (Year C): Nehemiah 8:2 – 4a, 5 – 6, 8 – 10Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 151 Corinthians 12:12 – 30Luke 1:1 – 4; 4:14 – 21...
Less than 24 hours after her cesarean section on April 30th at a government-run teaching hospital in Oron, a coastal community of Akwa Ibom in Nigeria, 24-year...
I am Catholic and a historian of Catholics—and over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly convinced that U.S. Catholics need a new account of ourselves...
Circle of Hope By Eliza Griswold (Macmillan Publishers, 2024) Church is a place where many people hope to find peace, but churches are made up of human beings...
Talking about his late friend Thomas Merton, acclaimed jazz vibraphonist Dick Sisto says jazz resembles Merton’s own approach to writing. Sisto, a former...
In September 2002, on the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I was 10 years old, living in New York, and full of frightened questions about...
Kaya Oakes is an author and lecturer for the College Writing Programs at University of California, Berkeley. The gospels are filled with stories of radical...
In Their Own Words is a new web column from U.S. Catholic. In these essays, academics and other experts provide short, evidence-based explanations of prominent...
Readings (Year C): Isaiah 62:1 – 5Psalm 96:1 – 2, 2 – 3, 7 – 8, 9 – 101 Corinthians 12:4 – 11John 2:1 – 11...
