Ansel Augustine is director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. “Can the church we love, love us back?” asks Ansel...
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Jessica Pegis is an author based in Toronto. In her debut novel The God Painter (Stone Table Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, 2021), Toronto writer Jessica...
“When people ask me what I do, I don’t tell them I’m a police officer,” says Anthony Campbell, chief of police of Yale University. “I tell them that I’m a cop...
Kelley Nikondeha is a liberation theologian and writer. The season of Christmas in contemporary U.S. culture has become an extravaganza of parties, presents...
As of September 2022, more than 1 million people have died of COVID-19 in the United States. This is more than twice the number of U.S. citizens who were...
When you hear the word disciple, what do you think of? Probably the 12 apostles, maybe some of the greater crowd following Jesus in the gospels. A few readers...
In the July 2022 issue of U.S. Catholic, we talked to Marcia Lane-McGee and Shannon Wimp Schmidt about their new book, Fat Luther, Slim...
Historian Shannen Dee Williams had never seen a Black nun until she stumbled across a 1968 news story about the founding of the National Black Sisters’...
Marcia Lane-McGee Confronting racism in the Catholic Church and recognizing our diversity should be joyful work, say Marcia Lane-McGee and Shannon Wimp Schmidt...
On June 21, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring, in Justice Samuel Alito’s 78-page opinion, that the U.S. Constitution does not...
