Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Every year at Halloween in the United States, amidst the usual vampires, witches, wizards, and superheroes...
Church holidays
For many Christians around the world, Christmas and Easter are the busiest and most anticipated holidays of the church year. Christmas is a joyous season for...
Beads and booze. Food and fats. Dancing and drinking. Pleasures and pączki. OK. The last one is more of a Chicago thing. Pączki are Polish pastries enjoyed by...
There’s more to St. Patrick than shamrocks and beer How a teen of Roman nobility became Ireland‘s ‘Holy Boy.’ How St. Patrick changed Ireland—and the church We...
Years of prayer on the land kindled a fire in St. Patrick. He escaped from Irish captivity back to the Roman Empire of his birth, only to be shown by the Voice...
Many Catholics know little of St. Patrick beyond the kitschy mascot of clovers, green rivers, and beer. In reality, Patrick is a mythical hero born of blood...
With All Souls Day and All Saints Day fast approaching, the editors of U.S. Catholic took a deep dive into the archives to compile some of our best articles...
One cold day in March, the Sosa family was getting ready for dinner when they heard on the evening news that their state had been ordered to shelter in place...
When I was about 6 years old, I finally got to participate in an Easter tradition in which I begged to partake every year: my Sicilian great-grandma’s roasted...
A little before 1 o’clock Saturday morning, the Good Friday procession, which had started at 7 o’clock the night before, finally arrives at the Calvario Chapel...
