My son Henry sat opposite me in our living room, trying to cross off a confirmation-related assignment on his to-do list: an interview with a parent about...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
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...
I grew up bound for Colorado. We have family there, and every summer we would leave the Midwest in a van filled with siblings, cousins, and tías. Every trip...
On the morning of Jesus’ resurrection, while darkness still covers the Earth, Mary Magdalene braves the journey to Jesus’ tomb with only an oil lamp to light...
The only thing I really knew Iceland for was its hot dogs, sold from a stand called Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur. Novelist John Green reviewed them on a five-star...
As a queer Catholic couple, my fiancée and I had wondered how God might want us to build a family. Then, as we were preparing for our wedding in early 2020...
In a spring afternoon in 2005, after receiving my master’s degree in counseling from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, I had an important stop to make...
Jamall Calloway is an assistant professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown. Genesis and Job are probably my two favorite...
Some of my earliest memories take place at the dinner table. Ours was in a sunroom with floor-to-ceiling windows that gave the effect of eating outside. When I...
As a Catholic of South Indian origin, I am amazed by the multiple religions thriving in the single country of India. I recall visiting the state of Kerala, and...
