The Catholic Church’s principles on immigration have their roots in scripture, tradition, and magisterial teaching. Both the Hebrew scriptures and Christian...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
The word sabotage—from the French saboter, “to bungle, wreck, or willfully disrupt”—originally referred to a 19th-century labor tactic. French textile workers...
One of my favorite paintings of Palm Sunday is James Ensor’s “Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889.” It’s a chaotic painting: half mob, half Mardi Gras...
The day before the United States and Israel launched a joint military campaign over Iran, which, in its first days, reached more than 4,000 targets and killed...
Theologian Kat Armas started thinking seriously about Mary’s role in the Catholic faith when she wrote her first book, Abuelita Faith (Baker Books), which...
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...
Data centers are causing controversy across America and around the world. In early December 2025, my county council in Indiana voted on a rezoning that would...
President Donald Trump has discovered a number of ways to divide his fellow Americans. In attacks on American universities and threats to withhold federal...
When the U.S. Food and Drug Association approved the first human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine in 2006, my nurse practitioner mother sat me down to discuss it...
