U.S. Catholic Blog

An attack on Mary

A statue of the Virgin Mary was beheaded in Santa Monica, California over the Easter weekend. Parishioners, ABC news reports, arrived at St. Monica Catholic...

Big questions online and on TV

In time for the Easter season, a new show has started that explores the “Global Spirit,” as the show is named. Produced by LinkTV, a nonprofit Dish Network...

Bangkok dangerous

Father Joe Maier and his Mercy Centre were featured in the April 2006 issue of U.S. Catholic ("Suffer the children"). We received this too-up-close...

A recession turns deadly

Have you wondered if the daily rundown of the day's national casualties has grown a little longer than usual? No, you are not imagining things. According...

Simon the Pole-sitter

When I was in second grade, Sister Mary Janice told us about a guy named Simon who sat atop a column for 37 years to show his devotion to God. I thought that...

That’s sun tradition

Imagine saying a prayer once every 28 years. You only utter those words a few times in your life. That’s exactly what tens of thousands of Jews did this...