“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...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
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...
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...
Margaret Heldring clearly remembers a conversation she had in 2012, after 20 children died in a gun attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School. She was having...
Leonel Palacios had a dream. He left El Salvador in 2011, when he was 18, after his brother was murdered by members of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, one of the...
In the wake of Pope Francis’ passing, many LGBTQ+ Catholics wondered whether the momentum of synodal dialogue would continue. I can say with confidence: It has...
