As an adolescent, I never thought I would end up working in theology and ministry. For me, Catholicism was to be tolerated for the sake of family. No more, no...
Young adults
In his 2018 apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad), Pope Francis speaks of the holiness God bestows on ordinary people—parents...
As a college freshman, I first came to church because I felt I should, not because I felt I belonged. Yet, something special happened when I came to that...
James Joyce is famously quoted as writing: “Catholic means ‘Here comes everybody.’ ” While that may have been the case in Ireland in the 1930s when Finnegans...
Ansel Augustine is director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. “Can the church we love, love us back?” asks Ansel...
“Black Lives Matter to God and to Us,” reads a large banner hanging over the entryway to the United Catholic Youth Ministries (UCYM) staff workspaces on the...
One weekend each fall, some 2,000 high school students from Jesuit schools around the country descend on the Washington, D.C. area to talk about immigrants...
In the online Catholic multiverse, there exists a digitally painted reimagining of the coronation of the Blessed Mother by Dani M. Jiménez, a 20-year-old...
“I can’t do this because I’m an atheist.” “I can’t do this because I’m Christian, not Catholic.” “I can’t do this because I don’t know what I believe.” These...
College student Maria Dominguez juggled a lot during her junior year as a political science major at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. In...
