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As a Filipino American I prayed for Tagle, but rejoiced for Prevost

5 days ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

It is my conclave story captured in one frame: Moments prior to the proclamation extra omnes (outside everyone), I chanced upon a scene from the video coverage at the Sistine Chapel. The camera focuses on Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, with his hand partially shielding his mouth, speaking in a hushed tone to his amused seatmate, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, while both of them look at something off frame.
A history of U.S. Catholic magazine

5 days ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

On Chicago’s far south side in the early 1930s, as the Great Depression was hitting the many steel mill laborers in his parish, Father James Tort started receiving letters and petitions addressed to St. Jude. People sent the letters to the National Shrine of St. Jude, which Tort had just founded at Our Lady of Guadalupe parish. The letters flooded in—a sign people were clinging to faith in a time that felt hopeless.
What we’re reading this month: May 2025

1 week ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

How should one engage with the polis as a Christian? In his newest book, Citizenship Without Illusions, David T. Koyzis offers a well-explained primer on navigating the responsibilities of being a citizen. Pulling deeply from his career as a professor of political science and his experience with various Christian denominations, Koyzis breaks down the ideals and behaviors required to participate in a nation.
8 disabled saints who worked for justice

1 week ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

When Jesus and his followers encountered a man blind from birth, the disciples asked, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus replied, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him” (John 9:1–3). Traditional interpretations of this scripture say the man was born blind just so Jesus could come along and heal him, displaying the power of God. But what if Jesus meant something else?
When talking to Jesus, there are no silly questions

1 week ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

Some of us were raised in environments where it was fine to ask questions. Perhaps our parents, teachers, and pastors were happy to entertain our curiosity about the world around us and the things we didn’t understand. But other families, schools, and church communities view questions as a form of doubt or a challenge to authority. In such contexts, we learn to keep our confusion and searching to ourselves.
Reflections on Pope Leo from the Franciscan tradition

1 week ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

On May 7, 2025, Augustinian Father Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV. As the news traveled, a flood of memories stirred in my heart. In the early 1980s, we were students at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago (CTU). He was in his final year; I was in my first. We shared academic space and the corridors where we were formed in the bold and faithful spirit of Vatican II. I confess that I really do not remember him.
Toxic masculinity clashes with actual Catholic teaching

1 week ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirby Hoberg noticed that her pastor began to give, in her words, “a lot of strange homilies.” These included “homilies that suggested that racism wasn’t real, that the pandemic wasn’t real, that viruses weren’t real.” In short, “a lot of fairly concerning things to have preached.” Having moved to Minnesota with young children a few years before that, her family didn’t know anyone in the area, so church was a place where she’d invested a lot of time and energy,...
A reflection for the Feast of the Ascension

1 week ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

Acts 1:1 – 11Psalm 47:2 – 3, 6 – 7, 8 – 9Ephesians 1:17 – 23Luke 24:46 – 53I’ve long said that Catholic theology offers endless possibilities for a healing, helpful, affirming theology of bodies. Between embodied ritual and liturgy in the Mass, divine embodiment via the incarnation, and the literal embodiment of God in the Eucharist, bodies are central to our faith tradition. So it is fitting that today, on the Feast of the Ascension, our readings are all about bodies.
'Presence' is a ghost story about messy family dynamics

2 weeks ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

Who loves a good horror movie? Well, if you do, you are out of luck. This is not a horror movie. OK, who doesn’t love a scary ghost story? Well, you too are out of luck, because this is not a scary ghost story in the traditional sense. So, what is Presence? The evocative and excellent new film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is a meditation on the messy dynamics of holding together as a family during the ordinary and extraordinary challenges of life.
Is there a moral obligation to vaccinate your children?

2 weeks ago | uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter

There’s nothing quite like holding down a screaming toddler while a nurse jabs their little leg with a vaccination needle. It can feel like an act of betrayal: This child who looks to you for love and protection is scared and in pain because of something you made happen. To make things worse, some very vocal groups are telling parents that vaccines themselves will harm children—that they are part of a government conspiracy, or that they cause autism.