The Pastoral Summit project, headed by Paul Wilkes, has been seeking out excellence among Catholic parishes and Protestant congregations since the late 1990s...
Ministries
Pope Francis calls human trafficking “a crime against humanity.” In his December 2014 Declaration on the International Day for the Abolition of...
During my two weeks in Ghana, there was virtually no rain. In mid-July, the fields of Northern Ghana should already be teeming with corn, their second crop...
Any successful corporate leader will tell you that an organization needs to have sound business practices if it hopes to reach its goals. And while the...
By J. Peter Nixon This article appeared in the March 2005 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 70, No. 3, pages 24-28). He was six feet tall, with a blond crew cut and...
At age 54, when I had been a Catholic sister for 38 years, I met Courtney, a trans woman. This was, at that point in my life, a new experience. I immediately...
Working for a Better World By Carolyn Y. Woo (Our Sunday Visitor, 2015) When Carolyn Woo first came to the United States as a college freshman, she barely had...
An interview with Father Jack Wall, the president of Catholic Extension Have you missed the excitement in Browning, Montana? Camden, Mississippi? French Camp...
Like Dorothy, the sisters first arrived here via tornado. And in another Oz parallel, their presence led the people of Pueblo de Palmas to discover that the...
The ISIS blitzkrieg into northern Iraq last summer and the subsequent decimation of one of the oldest Christian communities of the church—coupled with the so...
