“No one is useless and no one is expendable. This also means finding ways to include those on the peripheries of life. For they have another way of looking at...
Theology
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible.”...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
Lay-Lay. That’s what my 4-year-old nephew calls me because he has trouble saying my name the way most people say it — Brandon. When he first started...
We all make choices every day, and these choices mean we help some people and not others. And it is common sense (and our common practice) that we love more...
As someone who tends to get stuck in my head, over-analyzing thoughts and arguments to find flaws and make meaning, studying theology was an obvious academic...
Good is to be done and pursued and evil is to be avoided.” So goes the first principle of natural law according to Thomas Aquinas, a morality that remains...
Cosmetic surgery in the United States today is a multibillion-dollar industry—smoothing out wrinkles and plumping up lips is no longer limited to Beverly Hills...
One morning in June 2024, Anne Marie Brillante and teachers and students from the children’s summer catechism class walked into their parish church, St...
Talking about his late friend Thomas Merton, acclaimed jazz vibraphonist Dick Sisto says jazz resembles Merton’s own approach to writing. Sisto, a former...
