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...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
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...
By Alicia Marsland This article appeared in the March 1985 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 50, No. 3, pages 30-31). It is a reprint from Bringing Religion Home...
By Dan Morris This article appeared in the January 1985 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 50, No. 1, pages 26-31). Can parishes ease the problems and pressures of...
By Ken Maafe This article appeared in the March 1984 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 49, No. 3, pages 12-13). My father had an enduring love for the church and a...
Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cypnan, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmos and Damian – remember them? For centuries they were...
By Dan Grippo This article appeared in the December 1979 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 44, No. 12, pages 23-24). Christmas. I’m sick of fighting my way into...
