Thank you for visiting Tomorrow’s American Catholic.
Tomorrow’s American Catholic (TAC) is a journal and publishing platform animated by a central question: Who is tomorrow’s American Catholic, and how is their understanding of themselves, their faith, and their church evolving in time?
Our work is rooted in the spirituality of the Synod on Synodality, which we see as the natural extension of reforms introduced by the Second Vatican Council. We seek to contribute to the creation of a culture within the church that is marked by openness, inquiry, attentive listening, and communal discernment.
Heeding Thomas Berry’s warning that “we will go into the future as a single sacred community or we will all perish in the desert,” we place a high value on interspiritual dialogue and collaboration. We view the peripheries of the church as points of contact with others—places to practice a “ministry of presence” where we discover Christ in our receptivity. We hope to convey this spirit of contemplative hospitality in all of our work, written as well as recorded.
Our Offerings
Our published pieces take several forms, including long-form essays, straight-ahead reportage, book and film reviews, and spiritual meditations and reflections on Scripture. We are also committed to publishing poetry, as we believe it to be an essential element of any discourse around religion.
Our podcast, also called Tomorrow’s American Catholic, features interviews with authors, activists, and spiritual practitioners who help us envision together new forms of Catholic culture and ways of being church.
Guiding Images
As we begin to develop the theme of “tomorrow’s American Catholic,” we offer a few guiding images to help shape what we hope will be a sustained and multimodal conversation:
Tomorrow’s American Catholic is a citizen of a global church, meaning that her “American” identity implies a pan-American, whole-hemisphere perspective.
Tomorrow’s American Catholic is ecumenical, meaning that he knows no one is saved alone and that our intersecting planetary crises can only be addressed through interfaith and international collaboration.
Tomorrow’s American Catholic may seek connection through spiritual centers, retreat houses, and other intentional communities—places one writer has described as “not only of adoration and contemplation but also of encounter and conversation, where experiences of faith can be shared”—beyond traditional parish structures.
Tomorrow’s American Catholic may still be defining their relationship to the institutional church while expressing deep commitment to Catholic values such as peacemaking, social justice, and care for creation.
Tomorrow’s American Catholic values meditation and contemplation as part of her practice; she holds a sacramental view of creation and claims her place within the universal priesthood of all believers.
Connect with Us
We welcome correspondence from our readers, hearers, fellow seekers, co-creators, and co-facilitators. You can reach us at editor@tomorrowsamericancatholic.org with questions, comments, critiques, and concerns, or just to say hello.
We are always open to considering pitches; send a brief (150-200 word) description of what you’d like to write about or review, and we’ll see how it fits into our publication schedule.
