When Meg Cady, a 32-year-old math teacher at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago, prayed the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises with a group of teachers from her...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
On October 5, 2025, the Diocese of Charlotte opened the Chapel of the Little Flower in Mooresville, North Carolina—a small structure with a large significance...
Tucked into eight acres on Long Island’s Shinnecock Bay, St. Joseph’s Villa has been a place of respite and retreat since 1960, tended by the Sisters of St...
Anna (her name is changed here for safety reasons) was in a decades long marriage that she came to understand as emotionally abusive. When people outside of...
Father Vincent Pizzuto is the type of person who takes stairs two at a time. I noted this as he led me up to my room on the third floor of St. Columba’s...
Billed as an “oasis in the desert,” Holy Cross Retreat Center in the Mesilla Valley south of Las Cruces, New Mexico, hosts retreats, provides spiritual...
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...
In the south Florida city of Homestead, near the Everglades, low-income migrant farmworkers have long labored in area fields. Today, their children face steep...
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...
Across the United States, Claretian Missionaries fostered Spanish-speaking parishes for Latino migrants in working-class neighborhoods. Claretians put these...
