U.S. Catholic Blog

Peace be with you

I can't believe that the International Day of Peace passed me by yesterday (deadline weeks are hardly peaceful), but there's no reason we can't...

Pre-Cana: Reach out or kick out?

With a new bishops' document and Catechetical Sunday focusing on marriage this fall, a young adult asks who pre-Cana is serving and how well it's doing...

Whose Newman?

Bob McClory, an emeritus professor of journalism at Northwestern University and an occasional contributor to U.S. Catholic, has an insightful column at...

Tastes good but in poor taste

Yes, I scream for ice cream, but I wouldn't say that ice cream is my religion. "Ice cream is our religion" is the most recent ad campaign for...

Pope on offensive in UK

Pope Benedict XVI took a swipe at the "atheistic extremism" and "aggressive secularism" of the UK (and modern Europe in general) in his...

When does human life begin?

Though not my intention to bring uscatholic.org down in a blaze of fury, I thought I'd pass along a Religion News story on a Missouri law that defines when...