U.S. Catholic Blog

Babies not in limbo

They aren't in limbo, but unbaptized babies aren't in a cemetery either. Archeologists are looking for mass graves of babies that died before Baptism...

Converted churches

As a full-time volunteer after college, I lived in a convent converted into the volunteer program’s offices. Across the street was an old church (not Catholic)...

An earth-shattering event?

In what may turn out to be the mother of all cautionary tales for development economics, geologists around the world are beginning to suspect that a large dam...

Sins of the father

The news that Legionaries of Christ founder Marcial Maciel Degollado, who was forced out of public ministry after revelations of inappopriate contact with...

Voice of Bart Simpson in trouble

Fox might want Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, to write this on the chalkboard 100 times: “I will not use Bart Simpson to promote Scientology.”...

Does God belong at the Super Bowl?

Between the ads and some exciting football, I completely missed the religious undertones of the Super Bowl last night. On the “On Faith” blog, Kathy Orton...