Our readers have some strong ideas about how to build a better clergy–from training to ordination requirements to personal traits that make a priest...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
In an interview with U.S. Catholic, Bishop Kenneth Edward Untener shared his vision of a nourishing liturgy and united church. You've written...
"For too long we've had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood," laments Father Robert Barron, assistant professor of systematic...
IT'S A PRIZE FIGHT-progressive Catholics against traditional Catholics,liberals against conservatives. But while the boxers slug it out inthe ring, who is...
There are certainly many new approaches to spirituality and belief these days, but the parish remains the place most Catholics go to for sustenance. In fact...
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is conceptually akin to the building of a church. Further, it reminds one of the miracle of the loaves and...
Friendly meetings between Catholics and Muslims can make it a beautiful day in the neighborhood for all God's children. A couple of Muslim children...
We live in a messy time of transition in the Catholic Church. Sociologist Bryan T. Froehle offers four tools to help us through the renovation. During Lent we...
We all love to cheer for Catholic colleges and universities, but it takes more than one way of being a Catholic university to educate today's students. How...
Parishes are investing in eco-friendly techniques to save money and the earth. On a cold Saturday morning last December, Father Charles Morris showed just how...
