With the church at a crossroads, Catholics look to Pope Francis for guidance. Father John Baldovin says that much needed renewal of the church begins with the...
Liturgy
The new missal has made priests watch their language, but after one year most say the meaning of the Mass is getting lost in translation. There was plenty of...
Reporting straight from the pews after a year of the new translations, U.S. Catholic readers say they are still stumbling through the prayers. Stilted...
Fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, the church faces new challenges. In this final installment of a three-part series, Father Anthony...
When seen with eyes of faith, calendars help us keep time with Christ. More than any particular element of Catholic spirituality, the church’s calendar...
Suffering meets consolation in the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy. For the sake of his sorrowful passion . . . It was 3 p.m. and it was time...
My introduction to being a lector came through the invitation of another parish minister—not the pastor or another lector but the choir director. She...
A few years ago the Vatican issued a revised version of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, the “guidebook” for how to celebrate the Mass. The cover...
In our September Sounding Board, we asked readers to tell us about their wacky and wonderful wedding stories. Here’s what they had to say. The best thing...
Editors’ note: Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the...
