When Paul Fahey published his first paper on spiritual abuse—the misuse of spiritual or religious authority to control or harm another person—he had no idea...
Health and wellness
Read about health and wellness from a Catholic perspective, including guidance on physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
It’s a cold, gloomy day in early spring. I’m sitting in the parlor by the guest rooms of the Benedictine college where I teach. I’m here to ask the monk in...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify In this episode of Just Politics, the conversation explores the question: who can afford to get sick in the United...
Soon after moving to Florida, I fractured my ankle. My life felt fractured, too. Disoriented by the loss of a flourishing ministry and community in Ohio, I...
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...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube History and literature are full of dramatic stories involving deathbed conversions and the administering of what...
How quickly we’ve forgotten the early days of the COVID pandemic: the fear, the rising death toll, the uncertainty, the international lockdown, the suffocating...
No one wants to hear, “You have a rare disease,” but my neurologist announced it when she diagnosed me with erythromelalgia. This neurovascular syndrome...
The U.S. Catholic bishops’ guidelines for Lenten fasting and abstinence absolve children from the dietary restrictions, but as a family we have always chosen...
When the U.S. Food and Drug Association approved the first human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine in 2006, my nurse practitioner mother sat me down to discuss it...
