Sixty years ago, the Second Vatican Council document Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) directed Catholics to read the...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
This past week, a report revealed that the New Orleans Saints had aided the Archdiocese of New Orleans in damage control and cover-ups following the 2018...
One morning in June 2024, Anne Marie Brillante and teachers and students from the children’s summer catechism class walked into their parish church, St...
In autumn of 2015, I began organizing an annual wassail in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. On the Saturday after the University of Chicago’s fall quarter...
In Colombia, days before Catholic homes and parishes put up decorations of the magi carrying gifts or prepare their crèches for the birth of the baby Jesus...
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...
Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the...
For Mary Novak, being the first lay executive director of NETWORK, a social justice lobby of Catholic sisters founded in 1972, is an “integrating role at this...
In 1917, Dorothy Day was the victim of political persecution as she joined activists in Washington, D.C. standing outside the White House with picket signs...
For most of 2024, voters braced themselves for an election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. So when President Biden dropped out...
