U.S. Catholic Blog

A taxing conundrum

Pencils worn to the nub and nerves frayed, you’ve made it through the tax season relatively unscathed, maybe even found your way through the muddle of the tax...

More than giving up brownies

Her attempt to resist sweets may have been futile, but an unexpected event taught Kathleen Hockey why we bother with Lent. Guest blog post by...

Time for forgiveness

It’d be nice to think that reconciliation is between us and God, but sacrament is important to our Catholic faith. Guest blog post by Kevin Patrick...

Here comes the sun

Events out of Japan persist in an irradiated gloom as another Earth Day approaches. But among energy policy wonks in the United States the refrain (perhaps...

An earth-friendly Lent

Lent is a time to recover our connection to God's creation. In "Don't be crude," I suggested that those of us in developed nations have an...