If a community wants things to change, sometimes they have to be willing to get together and track mud on the carpets of city hall. While growing up in the...
Expert Witness
Even after nearly 50 years, the permanent diaconate still confuses some people. If deacons aren’t priests, are they laypeople? No—they are ordained. Some...
The editors of U.S. Catholic interview Claretian Father Samuel Canilang, the director of the Institute for Consecrated Life in Asia (ICLA) in Quezon City near...
Strong, active women have stood tall throughout Catholic history. So why is the church’s language about women still so inadequate? From her kindergarten class...
The editors of U.S. Catholic interview Father Donald Senior, C.P., professor of New Testament Studies and president emeritus of Catholic Theological Union in...
What do we mean when we say that by Jesus’ suffering and death we are healed—a mystery if ever there was one? You might imagine that Father Donald Senior had...
The editors interview Father Leslie Hoppe, O.F.M. Adapted from an article that first appeared in the January 1991 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 56, No. 1, pages...
As pastor of St. Teresa of Avila Parish in Washington, Msgr. Ray East knows what it takes to create a welcoming, enthusiastic parish. And, as the parish has a...
This dynamic pastor has a few tips on how to welcome parishioners and rekindle the fire among the faithful. Many priests can become bogged down with everything...
A veteran education reporter offers a progress report on whether our education system is meeting its obligation to teach the children well. “I started my...
