U.S. Catholic Blog

Close the SOA

With this year being the 20th anniversary of the six Jesuits being martyred in El Salvador, the SOA vigil is sure to be a powerful event this weekend. Although...

Generation 4F?

The Great Recession has certainly helped U.S. armed services achieve recruiting goals this year, and after years of lowering minimum standards, the 2009...

How Catholic is your media?

The offices of U.S. Catholic got a call from a local reporter after Cardinal Francis George's opening address to the bishops, specifically about this line:...

A new handwritten Bible

Have a few thousand dollars to spend? Then, you might want to buy a handwritten Bible. This one wasn't transcribed by monk in the days before the Gutenberg...

Number of “food insecure” rises

The church world-wide deals with hunger, though some places more than others. But even in the U.S. you don't need to look far to see that hunger is a...

Are you compassionate?

Sure it's easy enough to say we all should follow the Golden Rule and be compassionate, but what does that mean and how do we do it? This is the challenge...

The end is near

I admit that I'm a bit obsessed with the end of the world. I've seen most of the recent doomsday disaster movies–Armageddon, Independence Day...