Few have written authoritative biographies of the 20th-century spiritual giants Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, and Thomas Merton, the...
Spirituality
The editors interview Jim Forest, biographer and friend of Dorothy Day–and a former Catholic Worker himself, about Dorothy Day’s abortion...
"The next appointment," announced Father Muratori implacably, "is a certain Ms. Mary Carpenter." "Ms.?" said the archbishop...
After a decades-long absence, interest in demonic possession—and the ritual to defeat it—is on the rise. For more than a decade, Frank, a software consultant...
As a tour guide, Rick Steves directs travelers to hotels, restaurants, and museums in Europe, but he points them to God in the developing world. Rick Steves...
Whether it’s for some R&R, service, or education, U.S. Catholic readers say pack your bags and get going. Call them globetrotters, road-trippers...
I shy away from many popular spiritual movements, which seem to come and go like feathers in the breeze. But Celtic spirituality is not one of these. Celtic...
"Achoo!" "God bless you." One of the legends behind saying "God bless you" originates in the belief that a person's heart...
What’s the point of being a Christian? Father Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. answers this question in a book and this 2006 interview with U.S. Catholic. He...
I was a student at Yale Divinity School when Pope John Paul II died. He was the only pope of my lifetime, and while he was said to be loved by youth, I...
