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...
Author - Rebecca Bratten Weiss
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...
Or/And By Jeannine Marie Pitas (Paraclete Press, 2023) “Plato’s Symposium did not quite get it,” writes Jeannine Marie Pitas. “We are not severed eight-limbed...
Readings (Year A): 2 Kings 4:8 – 11, 14 – 16aPsalms 89:2 – 3, 16 – 17, 18 – 19Romans 6:3 – 4, 8 – 11Matthew 10:37...
Tell Her Story By Nijay K. Gupta (InterVarsity Press, 2023) In the foreword to Nijay K. Gupta’s Tell Her Story, historian Beth Allison Barr describes how...