Around 2 a.m. on November 6, once it was clear what the election outcome would be, I finally went to sleep. It was not a restful night. Every time I woke up, I...
Author - Rebecca Bratten Weiss
I recently reread C. S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in his Space Trilogy. The story follows a philologist, Ransom, who is kidnapped and...
Growing up, I had no television, so we rarely had a chance to watch political debates. But today, watching these events is a family affair. We’ve seen debates...
Donald Trump has chosen Ohio senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 election. Like Trump, Vance is a self-proclaimed populist who says he will...
My dad did not leave much behind when he died. He was committed to staying independent from the system, even if he wasn’t perfectly consistent about it. He did...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also...
In 1964, artist Norman Rockwell, best known for his photorealistic depictions of everyday American life, painted the now-iconic picture of 6-year-old Ruby...
Zero at the Bone By Christian Wiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) Despair hits differently at different times, and sometimes what hits isn’t despair, but a...
Some years back, I watched a discussion unfold on social media about the devil. A Catholic woman anxiously asked her friends for prayers that could be used to...
