The 1,200 people who packed Olivet Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side on a chilly Monday evening last December were assured by the event's...
Parish life
There are many issues about which Catholics disagree these days-birth control, divorce and remarriage, sex education in schools, the ordination of women, the...
Laypeople who make a living in the church love what they do–but don't always love the pay. Since the beginning Christian leaders have taken...
Our readers have some strong ideas about how to build a better clergy–from training to ordination requirements to personal traits that make a priest...
In an interview with U.S. Catholic, Bishop Kenneth Edward Untener shared his vision of a nourishing liturgy and united church. You've written...
"For too long we've had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood," laments Father Robert Barron, assistant professor of systematic...
IT'S A PRIZE FIGHT-progressive Catholics against traditional Catholics,liberals against conservatives. But while the boxers slug it out inthe ring, who is...
There are certainly many new approaches to spirituality and belief these days, but the parish remains the place most Catholics go to for sustenance. In fact...
We live in a messy time of transition in the Catholic Church. Sociologist Bryan T. Froehle offers four tools to help us through the renovation. During Lent we...
The first (and most ignored) rule of preaching the gospel: "Know your audience." A friend's birthday party occasioned one of the odder questions...
