U.S. Catholic

An extensive study by a noted researcher (myself) on the best of Catholic humor on the Internet uncovered depressing results. Mind you, it's a World Wide Web, so you'd think that at least somewhere on this vast globe would be a font of hysterical religious...

NIGHTLY TELEVISION BOMBARDS US WITH PICTURES of young Muslims, some dressed in their burial shrouds, marching through the streets of the Middle East ready to offer themselves as martyrs." Almost as frequently we see the carnage that those who carry...

THERE WERE AT LEAST 90 OF us, and we were herded around Europe in large buses the summer of my junior year of college. It was the first time I'd traveled with anyone other than my family, and I quickly learned that everyone has a different notion of...

AMERICANS SPEND A LOT MORE TIME ON THE THAN A JOB their parents did. The male breadwinners on Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, who spent 40 hours a week in the office, have been replaced by working couples who are on the job a whopping 91...

Consider the similarities between football devotion and religious worship: Every fall weekend thousands of students and alumni here drape themselves in sacred colors (orange and blue), bear on their bodies images of their religious totem (gators),...

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO JOHN HARPER, A CATHOLIC FROM BELFAST and former member of the Irish Republican Army, was a divided man, full of anger and shame--hiding, as he puts it, "from my own anxieties, my own fears." His life had been too tumultuous. In one...

Asking how the practice, of holding hands at the Lord s Prayer began is like asking who invented kissing. We may never know for sure, but it's easy to guess. Some families and households hold hands to say grace before meals. Maybe this practice migrated...