Carmen Nanko-Fernández is the director of the Hispanic Theology and Ministry Program at Catholic Theological Union. When Bronx native Carmen Nanko-Fernández...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
On July 18, a federal court blocked a law passed in Washington state that would have required clergy to report child abuse when shared in the confessional...
My youngest son woke from a nightmare at 4:00 a.m. He is 11 years old and nightmares happen, but this dream was very specific: Government agents from...
Jeff Keuss is an author, editor, dean, and professor at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. In 2016, theologian Jeff Keuss joined a national...
“Ballet is a woman,” famously declared George Balanchine, the legendary choreographer who helped make The Nutcracker a holiday staple. At first glance, ballet...
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...
