Editors’ note: Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors...
Peace & Justice
Reported stories and first-person essays about Catholic social teaching and how Catholics are living out the call to work for justice.
While not all single mothers are financially strapped, the poverty rate for families headed by single mothers, at 42 percent, is almost three times the rate...
Those least responsible for our flood of climate change concerns are bearing the brunt of the storm. A year after the twin blows of Hurricane Irene and the...
It’s an uphill battle for returning veterans as they look for support from their church and their community. For more on support for vets, read On the...
Fifty years after the game-changing Second Vatican Council a new generation helps the church respond to today’s signs of the times. Here, Dom Erwin Krautler...
At age 85, Jean Gump was released from prison after being arrested and jailed with 12 other protesters. They were caught trespassing at an off-limits federal...
Catholic colleges and universities fall behind their secular counterparts in an effort to recruit, accept, and keep poor students. Many Catholic colleges and...
The attitudes of young Catholics toward the military conflicts of the last 10 years spring from a complex web of influences that include demographics, church...
For Catholic millennials the past decade of war has mostly remained out of sight and out of mind. Caleb is a 22-year-old Navy veteran who headed to boot camp...
Would-be entrepreneurs often give up for lack of two things: training and cash. Enter some college students with a big idea. When a series of life blows...
