I live in a close-knit small town. We volunteer with local organizations, talk to our neighbors, and offer support when a struggle or celebration calls for it. We don’t ask each other about our political affiliations but simply engage in the shared project of building a community together. But I’ll admit: When I happen to […] The post Love your neighbor—even if you don’t love their politics appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
Readings (Year C): Habakkuk 1:2 – 3; 2:2 – 4Psalm 95:1 – 2, 6 – 7, 8 – 92 Timothy 1:6 – 8, 13 – 14Luke 17:5 – 10 Reflection: We are called to do the absurd We pray with the psalmist: “If today we hear God’s voice, harden not our hearts.” But sometimes I […] The post A reflection for the twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
Rebecca Sue By Kathleen Norris (InterVarsity Press, 2025) Over several decades, Kathleen Norris has written multiple spiritual classics, all of which ground complex topics within her personal experience. For instance, in Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks and a Writer’s Life (Penguin Publishing Group), she reinvigorates an ancient term for spiritual malaise. Norris’ latest book, Rebecca […] The post What we’re reading this month: September 2025 appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
My Catholic vocabulary expanded on March 7, 2020 when Pope Francis announced the Synod on Synodality. I knew what a synod was because the church had been holding them since its earliest days, but synodality was a novel concept. Some clarity came several months later when the Vatican released the handbook designed to guide the […] The post Expand your rosary with the “synodal mysteries” appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
On September 4, a night surely unlike any other the Church of the Gesù has seen in its long history, a congregation of LGBTQ+ Catholics, family members, and friends filled its nave. Standing between St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier, we prayed, worshiped, and shared the sacred stories of our lives. As the […] The post The Pilgrimage for LGBTQ Catholics was a celebration of belonging appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
The phenomenon of “twin movies”—two or more films with strikingly similar plots or subject matter released in close proximity—is almost as old as Hollywood itself. I remember a remarkable string of them in the 1990s (among others, two 1993 Wyatt Earp movies, two talking-piglet family films in 1994/95, and three 1997 volcano disaster movies). Two […] The post Are there too many Jesus movies? appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
Forty-one years ago, I joined the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, located in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. As a first-generation college student from a working-class family, I needed money to pay for my undergraduate studies, so I worked in the jail, which today has over 1000 personnel and an average daily population of 3000 […] The post Let there be no more Alcatrazes appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, Vice President JD Vance complained to tech and corporate leaders gathered at the American Dynamism Summit in Washington last March. “The idea of globalization,” he said, “was that rich countries would move further up the value chain, while the poor countries made the simpler things.” Implicit in the […] The post Pope Leo is taking a stand against the coming AI revolution appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
Readings (Year C): Amos 6:1a, 4 – 7Psalm 146:7, 8 – 9, 9 – 101 Timothy 6:11 – 16Luke 16:19 – 31 Reflection: Do not be indifferent to the cry of the poor On the surface, there are two basic interpretations of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus that we hear in today’s […] The post A reflection for the twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
The following excerpt is adapted from Our Church Speaks by Ben Lansing and D.J. Marotta. ©2024 by Benjamin Terry Lansing and Daniel John Marotta Sr. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press. www.ivpress.com. Christianity was introduced to Korea in the late eighteenth century by Korean laypeople who encountered the faith while studying in China (Butler’s Lives of the Saints: […] The post The story of the first Korean priest teaches us hell will not prevail appeared first on U.S. C...| U.S. Catholic
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