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...
Young adults
“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...
It was finally confirmation day for our teens. As I approached the first teenager, I could see on his nametag the saint’s name he had chosen for his own...
Old is good. If you’ve ever had a tattered shirt you can’t throw out because of all the good times and happy memories rubbed into it, you’re a fan of the old...
The Springtide Research Institute has spent the past few years studying the religious inclinations and spiritual yearnings of what sociologists call Generation...
At first, Molly Burhans thought she’d be a ballet dancer. It had been her dream through middle school, her focus in high school, and her major in college—until...
