U.S. Catholic Blog

Good Books in Pennsylvania legislature

Pennsylvania funds the distribution of religion books to its lawmakers, according to a Washington Post On Faith blog. At least the lawmakers get to choose...

A week, a Lent without swearing

A 14-year-old boy has inspired Los Angeles County (or at least part of it) to try to go without swearing this week.  McKay Hatch is the founder of the No...

Are we failing next-gen Latino youth?

Often the immigration debate, such as it is, in America swirls around conflicting appreciation of the presumed benefits and irresistibility of assimilation for...

Work green, live green

In England, it’s the first annual Green Office Week, a project speared by office supply company Avery. I don’t know why it’s not Green Office Week in the...

Snuggies for a good cause

At a retreat I was at a few weeks ago, a speaker talked about the great temptation of today of just “checking out” rather than engaging in the world and its...

Death penalty walking . . .

Could the high-cost of state sponsored killing finally prove the undoing of capital punishment? A parade of exonerated death row prisoners has been enough to...