U.S. Catholic

The primary voting season already looks a bit shopworn, yet the first caucuses and elections are many months down the road. A woman, a mixed-race man, and a Mormon are among the dozens of people from both political parties running toward the White...

BABEL Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Paramount Vantage, 2006) In Genesis 11 God creates a cacophony of tongues that divides and scatters humanity into a jumble of alienated tribes. Given its title, you might expect this riveting and interlocking...

FORTY YEARS AGO A BRITISH CATHOLIC BISHOP WAS asked to describe the proper position of the laity. The poor man--unhinged by nuns with knees, teenagers with guitars, and priests with hair over their ears--famously replied, "Seated beneath the pulpit...

ALL OF US WANT TO BELIEVE WE EACH HAVE AN IMPACT on other people's lives. Maybe this is why teaching--in spite of the low pay and bureaucratic nonsense--seems so attractive. We believe teachers can make that sort of a difference, inspiring students...

WHEN LEILA DE BRUYNE WAS 19, HER IDEA of poverty in Africa was something like a National Geographic special: a vast, green landscape dotted with thatched-roof huts, an almost romantic, beautiful kind of poverty. After three summers' work in an orphanage...

I imagine that for an awful lot of Catholics, reciting the Creed is something like a break in the action of the liturgy--a kind of pause between the two major sections of the Mass. As those overly familiar formulas slip past their lips, many Mass-goers...

It was a warm weekend in May when my wife asked me to top the middle of the road in Naples, New York. "St. Januarius!" she said excitely pointing to a white church of modern design. "St. Januarius" was not one of her usual expressions, but I knew...

As a professor of liturgy at Rome's Pontifical Liturgical Institute, Jesuit Father Keith Pecklers has a unique perch from which to view the current liturgical controversies. "I've gotten to the point where I can read a Vatican document and have a sense...