Each week, my parish priest encourages us to stop downstairs after Mass for coffee and donuts and to introduce ourselves to someone new—“No cheating!” he says...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
There’s a story about a minor miracle in the life of Blessed Solanus Casey, who was beatified in 2017 after a life of holiness and care for the poor, and whose...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
“I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples,” Pope Francis said on July 25, 2022. The pope spoke to a...
Katie Holler calls motherhood a “transformative experience.” It inspired her to found the Dorothea Project, a group of Catholic women pushing Catholic clergy...
You’ve seen them before. Over-saturated, cartoony, carnival-like advertisements. Blocky letters. Inexplicably mixed fonts. Generic, clip-art flourishes...
Before it was called Trout Lake, the nearly 4,000-acre body of water in Vilas County, Wisconsin had a different name. An Ojibwe wild rice technician dug up...
Some time ago, while visiting the Art Institute of Chicago, I was struck by Claude Monet’s series of haystacks. What captivated me was not the subject itself...








