On the whole, U.S. Catholic readers sing praises for their parishes. Sounding Boards are one person’s take on a many-sided subject and do not necessarily...
In the Pews
The U.S. Catholic Church today is undergoing profound cultural, social, and leadership transitions. It’s at the parish level that conflicts arise and new...
The most vibrant parishes focus as much on ministry to the poor as they do on ministry in the liturgy, says the founder of JustFaith Ministries. In 1988 Jack...
"It's a zoo," sighs Father Donald B. Cozzens, who had been hoping for a quiet sabbatical to finish writing his next book. Instead, the...
Making it through the dark night of the priest pedophilia crisis and arriving at truth and reconciliation requires an unflinching examination of our...
Preventing child sexual abuse begins with talking to your children about it. Dolores Curran provides some strategies to help. This formerly confident and...
Then head of the National Review Board, Frank Keating shared his view of the church's response to the sex abuse crisis with U.S. Catholic in 2003...
A religion educator explains the progams aimed at preventing and detecting sexual abuse in this article from 2006. Five years ago I was asked to teach a...
In an essay from 2005, one mother shares the lifetime of suffering beneath the clergy sex-abuse headlines. I am a mother of a son who was sexually abused...
The editors interview Father Robert Barron. "For too long we've had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood," laments Father...
