U.S. Catholic Blog

Bring on the Catholic Kitsch

The pope's trip to England is still a month away, but the sale of merchandise has already begun. It's led the U.K. Catholic Herald to ask, "Does...

Doctors don’t torture

Evidence of medical doctors participating in torture has prompted protests among Catholics. One of the basic tenets of the Catholic faith is...

Two years later, Kenya is rising

A great thing happened in Kenya yesterday: Kenyans went to the polls in peace. Debatable, however, is whether the new constitution that they passed, 47 years...

Prop 8 goes down: Now what?

Given that interested parties have had weeks to prepare alternate press releases on the fate of California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage...

Native-born nativism

I've been saying for a long time that U.S. political culture has made social satire a thankless task. More evidence surfaced this week with the new-found...