“Who can own a tree? Who can own a rock?” This timeless bit of wisdom from the first VHS tape I owned, the 1987 classic Ernest Goes to Camp, has been lodged in...
Religion
Essays explaining our faith, including stories about church teaching, Vatican documents, canon law, liturgical theology, and other Catholic topics.
Pope Leo XIV has been speaking forcefully and persistently against the United States’ military actions in Iran, addressing not just war in the abstract, but...
“I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay awake with me.” • Matthew 26:38 Julian of Norwich made the remarkable claim that God not only loves...
Artificial intelligence has been a literary trope since antiquity. Early instances of robots in stories include myths about self-operating tools or statues...
The rich young man who approaches Jesus in Matthew’s gospel already keeps the commandments. He wants to know if he should do more to have eternal life. “If you...
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...
One of my favorite Christmas songs goes: “Oh tell me when was Jesus born?” But the gospels offer no date for Jesus’ birthday. Some people say we only celebrate...
Chapters 37 and 38 in Genesis offer us back-to-back stories of people deceiving others but with an unexpected twist: One deceiver is praised and the other is...
I spent half of October in Tunisia, a country with more olive trees than people and more date palms than cars. (I actually have no idea if these facts are...
