In the first half of the 20th century, when the church at least seemed more organized, an inquiring Catholic could draw on an organizational chart of the...
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By Bishop Robert Morneau This article appeared in the June 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 64, No. 6, pages 34-37). Some years ago I came across a poem by...
Can you think of a word that describes a person who devoted much of her life to being with people many of us cross the street to avoid? Who for half a century...
Dorothy Day was 8 when her family moved into a tenement flat over a tavern on Chicago’s South Side. It was a big step down for the Day family. They had been...
First of all, Dorothy Day taught me that justice begins on our knees. I have never known anyone, not even in monasteries, who was more of a praying person than...
A group of Christians gathers at the Nevada test site to witness against the folly of nuclear weapons. In their prayers, before some of them are arrested, they...
By Margaret Mantle This article appeared in the May 1989 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 54, No. 5, pages 29-31). Like a lot of us, I grew up with a pretty...
By Dan Mintie This article appeared in the October 1984 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 49, No. 10, page 6-12). Ruth, 67-year-old pre-Vatican II daughter of the...
By Ken Maafe This article appeared in the March 1984 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 49, No. 3, pages 12-13). My father had an enduring love for the church and a...
Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cypnan, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmos and Damian – remember them? For centuries they were...