Sometime in the summer of 1829, a young Spanish man, Anthony Claret, was walking along a beach in Barcelona. The 20-year-old cloth merchant was suffering from...
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Lay-Lay. That’s what my 4-year-old nephew calls me because he has trouble saying my name the way most people say it — Brandon. When he first started...
For Claretian Fathers Mark Brummel and John Molyneux, both former editors-in-chief of U.S. Catholic, the enduring appeal of the magazine lies in people—the...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify During a time when ICE raids tear families apart, current administration policies criminalize asylum seekers, and cruelty has become...
It is my conclave story captured in one frame: Moments prior to the proclamation extra omnes (outside everyone), I chanced upon a scene from the video coverage...
On Chicago’s far south side in the early 1930s, as the Great Depression was hitting the many steel mill laborers in his parish, Father James Tort started...
Catholic history is full of famous excommunications involving court intrigue and geopolitical conflicts. Henry VIII of England was excommunicated twice: first...
Citizenship Without Illusions By David T. Koyzis (InterVarsity Press, 2025) How should one engage with the polis as a Christian? In his newest book...
When Jesus and his followers encountered a man blind from birth, the disciples asked, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”...
Some of us were raised in environments where it was fine to ask questions. Perhaps our parents, teachers, and pastors were happy to entertain our curiosity...
