The coffee mug on sale in the gift shop said it all: “Do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa. For $5.95 plus tax I could hold the key to a holy life...
Saints
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on saints—stories, reflections, and resources celebrating their lives, teachings, and example of holiness.
The popularity of The Davinci Code has spawned endless speculation about whether there’s a kernel of truth in this work of fiction: Did Jesus and Mary...
On the evening of March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador was shot and killed while celebrating Mass in the chapel on the grounds of...
On a Sunday afternoon in spring, in the fading light of a church sacristy, a friend told me he was going away for a few weeks. And he needed me to know why...
The other day my friend Alicia was telling me how sad and angry she felt when Hurricane Jeanne hit the poorest country of the Western hemisphere, Haiti...
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on Chicago’s South Side was little more than 12 months old when a standing-room-only crowd of more than a thousand worshipers...
On the seventh centenary on the birth of St. Bridget of Sweden, the pope sent a message to St. Bridget’s Order of the Most Holy Savior, praising its foundress...
This article originally appeared in the July 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic. One day a man named Macarius quit climbing the corporate ladder and retired to the...
Can you think of a word that describes a person who devoted much of her life to being with people many of us cross the street to avoid? Who for half a century...
Dorothy Day was 8 when her family moved into a tenement flat over a tavern on Chicago’s South Side. It was a big step down for the Day family. They had been...
