U.S. Catholic

AFTER 18 MONTHS OF UNEMPLOYMENT THAT HAS refused to budge below 9.6 percent, it will come as no shock to learn that poverty is on the rise in the United States. The latest data from the Census Bureau reveals that 44 million Americans--one in seven--are...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's lunchtime at St. Clement Parish in Chicago, and although some of the city's best restaurants are within walking distance, most of the staff members instead opt for microwaved leftovers and conversation with colleagues...

I was in the Arctic Circle, in Greenland, for some R&R and to learn about polar explorations. Having fallen in love with a pair of child's sealskin slippers, I was poised to buy them. "You are from the United States, no?" the woman behind the...

HEREAFTER Directed by Clint Eastwood (Warner Brothers, 2010) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For almost half a century Clint Eastwood has been making films about death, but nearly all of these movies have been violent adventures in which death arrives...

I'll tell you a story. Four years ago I sat at the end of my bed at 3 in the morning, in tears, furious, frightened, exhausted, as drained and hopeless as I have ever been in this bruised and blessed world, at the very end of the end of my rope, and...

To get to her house, Marie Josil walks through a blue tarp camp, where hundreds of makeshift shelters after the January 12, 2010 earthquake tumbled their Where the tent city ends, the cinderblock neighborhood begins. Her house, a two-room concrete...

For more than a decade, stories in the media have highlighted the problem of clergy sexual abuse of minors. Much of the recent focus has been on Europe, though there have also been some particularly horrific new stories in this country, such as the...

She looks skywards. Her watery eyes sparkle under the morning sun as her mind races back in time and she recounts the night that she was to be circumcised and married off to a man old enough to be her grandfather. At only 15, Susana Mathayo knew...