U.S. Catholic Blog

What is the purpose of prayer?

Maybe too much of a think piece for a Friday, but CNS has a story (posted here at USC.org) about prayer that raises an interesting question: “If the...

Celebrate interfaith harmony

Interfaith Harmony week celebrates the good of religion and of dialogue on both a local and global scale. Guest blog by Sue Stanton “There’s a bomb in your...

More on culture and the sacred

Great interview with Sean Dorrance Kelly of Harvard Philosophy Department and author of All Things Shining on The Colbert Report last night. The Colbert Report...

Packers create scandal!

The Super Bowl is NOT more important than Mass, a Catholic from Appleton, Wisconsin wrote in a letter to his local paper: “From our Bishops down to...

A hungry mob is an angry mob …

So says Bob Marley in “Them belly full, but we hungry.” While the popular uprising in Egypt is clearly being driven by widespread dissatisfaction...

Egypt uprising not unexpected

As our government struggled with how to respond to the uprising in Egypt, a Catholic priest interviewed by Catholic News Service on Friday wasn’t surprised...