Author - Emily Sanna

Emily Sanna is the managing editor of U.S. Catholic.

Women and Christian witness

The Strength of Her Witness: Jesus Christ in the Global Voices of Women Edited by Elizabeth Johnson (Orbis Books, 2016) “What difference do women’s voices make...

A journey in ink

I’m used to strangers stopping me in public. “What kind of bird is that on your arm?” they ask. “I’ve never seen a tattoo like that.” The tattoo in question is...

A field guide for Catholics

Flipping through the pages of Melissa Musick and Anna Keating’s The Catholic Catalogue : A Field Guide to the Daily Acts That Make Up a Catholic Life, I...

Prayer from scratch

Growing up, I spent one week every summer with my grandparents in upstate New York. It was a week full of traditions and rituals that were repeated year after...