For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
Ecological justice
Reported stories, essays, and critical reviews dealing with ecological justice and our relationship with the rest of creation.
Few modern figures have been as universally respected and admired as Jane Goodall. Goodall was known first for being an anthropologist and primatologist...
The only thing I really knew Iceland for was its hot dogs, sold from a stand called Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur. Novelist John Green reviewed them on a five-star...
Along the beach by the Mission Point Lighthouse facing the Grand Traverse Bay in northern Michigan, visitors’ shoes crunch over millions of shells that are on...
Meeting the Enemy By Kevin J. O’Brien (Fortress Press, 2025) Some faith groups have called for fossil fuel divestment as a way to stifle climate change. But...
Through this Fire Across from Peter Balkan The Mountain Goats (Cadmean Dawn, 2025) Despite the title, the prominent element in the Mountain Goats’ latest album...
For many people who use artificial intelligence, it is easy to ignore the reality of where this technology physically lives: data centers. These massive...
How do you teach someone who doesn’t want to learn? You might look for new ways to engage people who, at best, are indifferent to your message and at worst...
In Orlando, Florida, in 2012, a wife and husband cultivated a healthy vegetable garden in their front yard. But the city of Orlando fined and prohibited them...
During a January East Coast snowstorm, 18 diocesan representatives gathered in person in Washington D.C. to discuss how faith called them to respond to the...





