In youth sports, we shouldn’t just be in it to win it. Sometimes that means parents need to be sidelined so kids can just play. When his daughter was playing...
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A few years ago, Erie Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, a prolific spiritual writer and one of the most prominent, outspoken contemporary American Catholic...
Immigrants may seem like a powerless population, but community organizer Ana Garcia-Ashley believes that together they can be a force for positive change. As a...
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean began a correspondence with two death row inmates in her home state of Louisiana. She eventually became the spiritual adviser to...
If a community wants things to change, sometimes they have to be willing to get together and track mud on the carpets of city hall. While growing up in the...
According to Deacon William T. Ditewig, deacons are called to do their work outside the walls of the church, “connecting the dots” between a parish and a...
Even after nearly 50 years, the permanent diaconate still confuses some people. If deacons aren’t priests, are they laypeople? No—they are ordained. Some...
In our May 2014 issue, the editors at U.S. Catholic interviewed theologian Emily Reimer-Barry, professor of theology at the University of San Diego about the...
The editors of U.S. Catholic interview Claretian Father Samuel Canilang, the director of the Institute for Consecrated Life in Asia (ICLA) in Quezon City near...
Strong, active women have stood tall throughout Catholic history. So why is the church’s language about women still so inadequate? From her kindergarten class...
