Haitian refugee Patrick Joseph comes from a country where tropical flowers bloom in a cavalcade of colors. He now lives in Springfield, Ohio, where the dreary...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
Across the United States, Claretian Missionaries fostered Spanish-speaking parishes for Latino migrants in working-class neighborhoods. Claretians put these...
On Tuesday, September 9, residents of Rochester, New York showed up en masse at a neighborhood home where immigration enforcement officers had detained a...
On September 4, a night surely unlike any other the Church of the Gesù has seen in its long history, a congregation of LGBTQ+ Catholics, family members, and...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics...
I’m a Millennial living in an intentional community. Recently, when someone heard I shared a home with two women religious—both older than me—they remarked...
When the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops published a pastoral letter called “Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response” in 1992, they likely expected a warm...
In February 2025, the Department of Education sent a letter to federally funded colleges and universities. In the letter, often called the “Dear Colleague”...
Blessed are those . . . who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. • Psalm 84:5 (NIV) Late one spring, writes Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales...