When I first started dating my husband, I hated sitting next to him at Mass. His leg was constantly bouncing, shaking the pew and distracting me from what was...
Disabilities
Read Catholic perspectives on disability justice, including advocacy, accessibility, and inclusion in church and society.
“Everyone deserves to be loved.” This was the answer I received when I asked my students what they thought Jesus would say if he were asked, “What is your...
When Jesus and his followers encountered a man blind from birth, the disciples asked, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”...
Malachy Fallon, the first lay executive director of the Xavier Society for the Blind, “happened to be at the right place at the right time” when he began his...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics...
I was sitting on my bed in a moment of mental health crisis when I got a call from my friend Emily. (I changed her name for the purposes of anonymity.) I was...
Canada is poised next month to expand a vast social experiment in state-sponsored “medical assistance in dying.” Beginning, unpleasantly, on St. Patrick’s Day...
The priest, robed in red, processes down the aisle to the church entrance and removes his mask—though he won’t be speaking. An assistant presider holds open a...
Father Matthew Schneider had a “pretty normal Catholic upbringing,” he says. His family went to Mass on Sundays, he attended Catholic school, and he was an...
Best Summer Ever (available on Hoopla and to buy or rent on streaming platforms) is a predictable summer film about adolescent yearning and intrigue, an homage...
