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Catholic Identity
Posted inFaith, Features
The humble, indispensable women leading the Catholic Church you’ve (probably) never heard of
The church may benefit from a more deliberate effort to reach out to Catholic women.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
For Catholic women, the relationship between faith and politics is subtle—and sometimes in conflict
Few Catholic women say they look to the church for help in deciding how to vote, even while about half say Catholic teaching on key political issues is important to them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Investigating Mystery: The Fictional Journeys of Kirstin Valdez Quade
While Kirstin Valdez Quade’s stories frequently feature Catholic characters, she says her relationship to the church “has always been a little bit complicated.”
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Cardinal Cupich: Pope Francis’ ‘field hospital’ calls us to radically rethink church life
Medics are useless if the wounded cannot reach them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Media
A Catholic Media Trinity: Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong and Andy Warhol
Their Catholicism was not incidental to their theories and their art; it was their structure, their spirit and their sustenance.
Posted inArts & Culture, Jesuitical
What’s it like being Catholic at The New York Times?
In our final Jesuitical episode of 2017, we talk with my fellow Bronxite and award-winning journalist at The New York Times, David Gonzalez. Born and raised in the South Bronx to Puerto Rican immigrants, David was raised Catholic and attended Cardinal Hayes High School. Since the 1970s, he has been snapping pictures of people and […]
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Can’t wait till the 25th? For Filipinos celebrating Simbang Gabi, Christmas comes early.
Simbang Gabi speaks to the central place that Christmas holds in the Filipino imagination.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Black Catholics are the past and future of the U.S. church
When you think about the history of American Catholicism, images of Irish, Italian, German and Polish immigrant parishes probably come to mind. Think about the future of the U.S. church, and you’ve probably been told it’s Latino. But the story of the church, in the United States—past, present and future—is the story of black Catholics. […]
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Black Catholics are the past and future of the U.S. church
The story of the church, in the United States—past, present and future—is the story of black Catholics.