My son Quentin died by suicide on April 26, 2020. Every Catholic parish has people like me who bear the sorrow of suicide loss, as well as those whose loved...
Parish life
Discover U.S. Catholic articles on parish life that highlight community building, inclusion, and justice in everyday Catholic ministry.
In 2021, Hurricane Ida knocked out eight transmission lines and 31,000 utility poles in Louisiana. This left 1 million people without power, with some outages...
We weren’t in the market for a second church. But my 12-year-old daughter had started to notice that, in Catholic spaces, no one in the highest positions of...
Each week, my parish priest encourages us to stop downstairs after Mass for coffee and donuts and to introduce ourselves to someone new—“No cheating!” he says...
There’s a story about a minor miracle in the life of Blessed Solanus Casey, who was beatified in 2017 after a life of holiness and care for the poor, and whose...
You’ve seen them before. Over-saturated, cartoony, carnival-like advertisements. Blocky letters. Inexplicably mixed fonts. Generic, clip-art flourishes...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts People go “parish hopping” for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it’s because of simple things like...
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...
On October 5, 2025, the Diocese of Charlotte opened the Chapel of the Little Flower in Mooresville, North Carolina—a small structure with a large significance...
Father Vincent Pizzuto is the type of person who takes stairs two at a time. I noted this as he led me up to my room on the third floor of St. Columba’s...
