U.S. Catholic Blog

A spectrum of faith

In a letter to the editor, a reader explains how she and her siblings hold on to faith through sorrow and joy.  Guest blog by Fay Obergfell  What a...

Gifts of the church

Scripture scholar Alice Camille belongs to the church, for better or worse. Guest blog by Alice Camille The decisive moment for me came in 1984. I was 26...

The year in social justice-y news

Waves of new revelations of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clerics in Europe, a badly misfiring U.S. and global economy, confusion reigning on U.S...

The pope’s liturgist

The Washington Post fulfilled every liturgist's dream by publishing a story about the two Marinis–Piero and Guido–the pope's former and...

The condom conundrum

Pope Benedict’s remarks on the use of condoms in the prevention of HIV continue to reverberate, both in the blogosphere and in the printed Catholic press...

A look back, a look forward

The Catholic Church has long had its divisions, but these divisions seem to have played out in very concrete ways this year, based U.S. Catholic‘s...