The jackhammer blast of gunfire ripped me from my sleep. Normally, late-night street sounds on Route de Delmas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti are no more alarming...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
This article appeared in the April 2000 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 65, No. 4, page 49). We are Catholic, therefore we celebrate. We can celebrate for weeks...
In the first half of the 20th century, when the church at least seemed more organized, an inquiring Catholic could draw on an organizational chart of the...
One morning a several years back I had occasion to call a neighboring parish, the name of which is All Souls. Not having the number handy, I dialed information...
Can you think of a word that describes a person who devoted much of her life to being with people many of us cross the street to avoid? Who for half a century...
The Day of the Dead, November 2, is a time of cemetery and church visits, home altars to the dead, special foods—including candy in the shape of skulls and...
Suspended from the kitchen ceiling in my home is a metal contraption from which my wife dangles wicker baskets, wooden spoons, metal pots, and handmade cloth...
Dorothy Day was 8 when her family moved into a tenement flat over a tavern on Chicago’s South Side. It was a big step down for the Day family. They had been...
By Mary Clare Brady This article appeared in the December 1993 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 58, No. 12, pages 31-33). “It was the best of times, it was the...
By Margaret Mantle This article appeared in the May 1989 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 54, No. 5, pages 29-31). Like a lot of us, I grew up with a pretty...
