In Their Own Words is a new web column from U.S. Catholic. In these essays, academics and other experts provide short, evidence-based explanations of prominent...
Saints
The following excerpt is adapted from Our Church Speaks by Ben Lansing and D.J. Marotta. ©2024 by Benjamin Terry Lansing and Daniel John Marotta Sr...
The following excerpt is adapted from Our Church Speaks by Ben Lansing and D.J. Marotta. ©2024 by Benjamin Terry Lansing and Daniel John Marotta Sr...
The following excerpt is adapted from Our Church Speaks by Ben Lansing and D.J. Marotta. ©2024 by Benjamin Terry Lansing and Daniel John Marotta Sr. Used by...
Recently, I came across a portrait by teen artist Betty Shanefelter in the American University/Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers exhibit, The Teen...
People say you never forget a first impression, but I honestly couldn’t tell you my first impression of St. Pope Paul VI. At first, I suppose, Paul VI was just...
The contemporary crisis of masculinity is often framed in reactionary terms—“men are lost,” “men are under attack,” “bring back real men.” Within Catholic...
Sometime in the summer of 1829, a young Spanish man, Anthony Claret, was walking along a beach in Barcelona. The 20-year-old cloth merchant was suffering from...
When Jesus and his followers encountered a man blind from birth, the disciples asked, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”...
As a child, Teresa of Avila—the 16th century Spanish saint and mystic—hatched a plan with her brother, Rodrigo. She had been reading about how wonderful heaven...
