The United States does not feel like a great place to be a woman right now. I’m not proud of a nation in which 75 million Americans voted for a convicted felon...
Saints
“When we know ourselves, we bring the gift of our history and our culture to one another, to the church, and to the world…I investigate and embrace the...
Introducing In Their Own Words, a new web column from U.S. Catholic. In these essays, academics and other experts provide short, evidence-based...
It did not come as a total surprise when Pope Francis, while visiting the United States in 2015, invoked the name of Dorothy Day. From the beginning of his...
This is an excerpt from Green Saints for a Green Generation (Orbis Books), edited by Libby Osgood, C.N.D.. Reprinted with permission from the author. Before...
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...
“Just offer it up!” It’s a typical Catholic response to children’s complaints. Bored during Mass? Offer it up to Jesus. Teacher yelled at you? Offer it up...
According to French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, when we look into the face of another person, we see the word of God. The face, Levinas writes, is a conduit...
Growing up in Texas, I often had a stash of Mexican pesos on hand from our recurrent trips across the border. I frequently fiddled with the bills and, raised...
Pints with Aquinas is a 21st-century podcast named for a 13th-century theologian—and, with millions of downloads, it’s one of the most popular Catholic audio...
