Earlier this month, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that, for the first time since 1936, the United States would conduct a public execution by firing...
Death and dying
Discover ethical, pastoral, and social justice considerations around death, dying, and end-of-life care in Catholic teaching.
Julia Minchew’s conversations with her 3-year-old, Annie, go something like this. Annie: “Mommy, when I get bigger, I’m going to go downstairs, take my car...
My son Quentin died by suicide on April 26, 2020. Every Catholic parish has people like me who bear the sorrow of suicide loss, as well as those whose loved...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics...
On the second story of a community college art museum in Kansas, a motley gathering of anti-death penalty advocates gathered to hear things one doesn’t...
The rich young man who approaches Jesus in Matthew’s gospel already keeps the commandments. He wants to know if he should do more to have eternal life. “If you...
There is some news that no one wants to hear. But as renowned writer Joan Didion observed in her 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf Doubleday)...
But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. (Wisdom 3:1) This is the year my mother died. Which makes...
“This man ought to be put to death because he is discouraging the soldiers . . . and all the people by speaking such words to them.” (Jeremiah 38:4) My best...
When my wife and I married, we sang Rory Cooney and Gary Daigle’s “Covenant Hymn.” Based on Ruth’s proclamation to her mother-in-law Naomi, that she would...
