Decades ago, it was common in some communities for Catholic children to be clothed with a brown scapular when they received their first communion. The...
Personal spirituality
Read U.S. Catholic’s coverage of personal spirituality, offering insights, stories, and resources to nurture your prayer, discernment, and spiritual growth.
Each year for vacation, my husband and I go to a beach town called Ogunquit on the coast of Maine. It’s one of our favorite places to visit. We stay at a hotel...
“And so [Anna] turned [Mary’s] bedroom into a sanctuary. . .”(Infancy Gospel of James 6:4) There are gospels that aren’t part of our Bible, what we call...
As Christians, we don’t typically view music the way we view activities like recreational sex or drunk driving. While Christian morality warns against...
“Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.” • (Luke 6:12) You might say that it was Thérèse who...
I first learned to love the darkness after my mother died. Not initially. At first, after holding her body close in those minutes after her last breath, and...
Cassidy Hall is an author, filmmaker, podcaster, and ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Cassidy Hall learned something important about...
One day in fourth grade, I checked out from the library a book with a teal jacket bearing intersecting light green circles; it was titled A Wrinkle in Time...
The oldest deck of tarot cards belonged to Italian cardinal Ascanio Sforza. In its earliest incarnation, tarot, or tarocchi, was an Italian card game popular...
Exile is an experience of abandonment, something we have likely all encountered at some point on our life journeys. It is rooted in the archetype of the...
