U.S. Catholic subscribers are big fans of Pope Francis, but some Catholics not so much. As Pope Francis finishes up his second year leading 1.2 billion...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
An assignment to write a feature on male spirituality overlaps with a serious medical diagnosis, surgery, and an unexpected awakening. It was more than a year...
The Catholic Church has long had a major role in providing care to the sick. But what does Catholic identity look like on the new frontiers of modern health...
Recently, the United States Supreme Court decided that an amendment in Michigan’s state constitution banning the use of affirmative action at public...
Editors’ Note: In the February 2015 issue of U.S. Catholic, author Michelle Bearden profiled five Catholic scientists who have found that faith has had a...
When Susan Ross first broke into the world of academia as a Catholic theologian, she was one of the few women in what had traditionally been a male-dominated...
Although a native New Yorker, I went to Boston to teach in 1991. In the mid-1990s, the sex abuse scandals in the church broke. One of the first lessons that we...
I can’t remember when I learned to knit. I know it was sometime when, as a small child, I watched my mom creating a sweater or afghan and wanted to do the same...
It is no secret that religious life is at a crossroads. As the church celebrates the Year of Consecrated Life, the number of men and women in religious orders...
Although it is often depicted in movies and media as being a common practice, international adoption into the United States has actually been in a sharp...
