2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (622+ words) Nearly 20 years ago, an immigration raid sent shockwaves through our commu'nity. I was 20 when la migra (immigration authorities) swarmed into the Discount Mall, the epicenter of our community. Immigration agents, armed to the teeth with rifles and bulletproof vests, pursued…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (636+ words) Not every love story is a romance. Some love stories'the ones rooted in reality and humanity'are also stories of the cultural fissures in a particular historic moment. They may also show us the ways lovers can sometimes clumsily harm each…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1106+ words) In May 2025, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV greeted the world with the words of the resurrected Jesus: "Peace be with you all!" Addressing "all people, wherever they may be," Leo spoke of the peace of the risen Christ as…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (538+ words) U. S. Catholic Reflection: Receive the gift, and with it, transform the world A standard commentary on today's gospel is to point out that the Greek verb for "eat" shifts in verse 54 from the standard phago to the less common tr'g', a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (637+ words) U. S. Catholic How quickly we"ve forgotten the early days of the COVID pandemic: the fear, the rising death toll, the uncertainty, the international lockdown, the suffocating masks, the dread of coming close to even our dearest family, the terrible slogan,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (362+ words) As a former management consultant in the technology and manufacturing industries and now a theologian studying the ethical implications of emerging technologies such as AI, I agree with Leo that this era is marked by new forms of exploitation and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (189+ words) Meanwhile, several Arab filmmakers have been busy trying to put the Palestinian story on the big screen. That work bore fruit last December, when three of the 15 movies on the shortlist for the Academy Awards" Best International Feature told Palestinian…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (280+ words) My father's tremendous affection for human beings did not extend to humanity's capitalist messaging, and television commercials especially provoked his scorn. In my last exchange with him, a few hours before he died, we made fun of a commercial advertising…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (488+ words) 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 readers to submit their responses to these opinion essays'whether agreement or disagreement'in the'survey'that follows. Click below to take this…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (299+ words) U. S. Catholic U. S. Catholic magazine earned several awards from the Associated Church Press (ACP) during this year's annual awards competition, recognizing editorial topics ranging from liturgical art to women's preaching, scripture to personal faith. "What stands out to me about this year's…...