Today, Hispanics are also the largest ethnic group within U.S. Catholicism; in the first decades of the new century, they will make up the majority of U.S. Catholics
The comforts of feasting—instant light, warmth, travel, food—have become so common that we talk about being "less materialistic" at Christmas. But God loves feasting
"I have wanted to create for myself a devotion to Mary that honors her as woman, as mother, that rejects the wickedness of sexual hatred and sexual fear."
From the archives: Carter's presidency is viewed as politically ineffective, but this view underestimates the legal and institutional legacy of his administration.
We live in a world and in a Church that are changing at a mad pace—indeed, in the next decade both the United States and American Catholicism may face the greatest challenges either has ever seen.
A white Presbyterian minister's 1963 reflection on the presence of white churches in the civil rights movement, and his personal account of the March on Washington