Artificial intelligence has been a literary trope since antiquity. Early instances of robots in stories include myths about self-operating tools or statues...
Religion
Essays explaining our faith, including stories about church teaching, Vatican documents, canon law, liturgical theology, and other Catholic topics.
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...
Decades ago, it was common in some communities for Catholic children to be clothed with a brown scapular when they received their first communion. The...
A young man approaches Jesus and asks, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus tells him to follow the commandments and love God and his...
But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. (Wisdom 3:1) This is the year my mother died. Which makes...
