Will the Synod on the Family bring change for divorced and remarried Catholics? One influential reform-minded cardinal hopes so. With the first of two meetings...
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When sexual abuse and homophobia rear their ugly heads, a positive youth sports culture can be part of the solution. Clark Power founded Play Like a Champion...
In youth sports, we shouldn’t just be in it to win it. Sometimes that means parents need to be sidelined so kids can just play. When his daughter was playing...
A few years ago, Erie Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, a prolific spiritual writer and one of the most prominent, outspoken contemporary American Catholic...
Immigrants may seem like a powerless population, but community organizer Ana Garcia-Ashley believes that together they can be a force for positive change. As a...
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean began a correspondence with two death row inmates in her home state of Louisiana. She eventually became the spiritual adviser to...
If a community wants things to change, sometimes they have to be willing to get together and track mud on the carpets of city hall. While growing up in the...
According to Deacon William T. Ditewig, deacons are called to do their work outside the walls of the church, “connecting the dots” between a parish and a...
Even after nearly 50 years, the permanent diaconate still confuses some people. If deacons aren’t priests, are they laypeople? No—they are ordained. Some...
In our May 2014 issue, the editors at U.S. Catholic interviewed theologian Emily Reimer-Barry, professor of theology at the University of San Diego about the...
