“Ballet is a woman,” famously declared George Balanchine, the legendary choreographer who helped make The Nutcracker a holiday staple. At first glance, ballet...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
In 1885, a 21-year-old Pennsylvania woman named Elizabeth Jane Cochran saw a column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch arguing that women exist primarily to have...
U.S. Catholic magazine celebrated its 90th anniversary with a celebration at Catholic Theological Union (CTU) on June 6. As well as members of the current...
There’s a story people like to tell about St. Óscar Romero’s media power: that you could walk anywhere in El Salvador on Sundays when he was archbishop without...
Seventeen-year-old Courtney Beatty was torn between going to a “No Kings” protest in Chicago or to the hometown celebration for Pope Leo XIV at the White Sox’s...
With the passing of Pope Francis, I was frankly apprehensive about the prospect of a new pope. Who would he be? Would he carry forward Francis’ legacy...
It is my conclave story captured in one frame: Moments prior to the proclamation extra omnes (outside everyone), I chanced upon a scene from the video coverage...
On Chicago’s far south side in the early 1930s, as the Great Depression was hitting the many steel mill laborers in his parish, Father James Tort started...
There’s nothing quite like holding down a screaming toddler while a nurse jabs their little leg with a vaccination needle. It can feel like an act of betrayal:...
