Commentary As the long days of summer fade and autumn’s cool, crisp air starts to settle in, it’s hard not to feel a shift in our spirits, too. I’m not one to have a favorite season; I love them all. But there’s so much to praise about fall. The vibrant colors of the leaves, the […]
Gretchen R. Crowe: Reflect on gifts you give and receive
Commentary It’s birthday month in our home, a time when four of the five of us flip the page that welcomes a new year and a new number. When you throw in Mother’s Day, end-of-year events, new sacraments and so on, the cake and ice cream alone have the potential to get wildly out of […]
Elizabeth Scalia: Don’t be afraid to say something
Commentary Touching on an incident where a priest hearing confessions was pepper-sprayed, a recent article from OSV News looked at how clergy and layfolk might balance security with welcome and worship. It is an uncomfortable subject. While staffers at weekend Mass in one North Carolina parish include armed off-duty police officers, many Catholics may balk […]
U.S. church poised for change as bishop appointments stall
ANALYSIS By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Change looms on the horizon for the American hierarchy. The anticipation is building as the appointment of Latin Church bishops in the United States has appeared to stall out over the last year or so. With Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki turning 75 on March 12, there are […]
Sainthood cause for founder of religious order advances
By Gina Christian OSV News Losing a young child. Struggling in a troubled marriage with an alcoholic husband. Separating, starting a nursing career in midlife, downsizing to a rental apartment and becoming a widow. And now, moving one step closer to sainthood. On March 14, Pope Francis authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints […]
Paulist Fathers reshuffle ministries as vocations decline
OSV News NEW YORK — An order of priests is revamping its ministries due to a downturn in its vocations — and the move highlights the church’s need to “triple the ask” for young men to consider religious life, said the congregation’s communications director. The Paulist Fathers, a missionary society of Catholic priests, announced […]
For acclaimed tenor, faith lies in choosing good
By George P. Matysek Jr. OSV News BALTIMORE — For one brief moment at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, the hopes of the world seemed concentrated on a single man standing alone outside the massive Duomo di Milano in Italy. Andrea Bocelli, one of the most acclaimed tenors of his time, kept his arms […]
Guided by faith, she fought for justice
Dorothy Day, whose work many still consider radical, is now a candidate for sainthood By Russell Shaw OSV News In one of his more snarky stories about clerical life — it’s called “The Forks” — the American Catholic writer J.F. Powers capsulizes the fraught relationship between a stuffy, self-important pastor and his young curate […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Group is in violation of canon law
QUESTION CORNER Q: I greatly enjoyed a recent article about our Orthodox brothers and sisters having a valid celebration of the Eucharist. My question is, can the same be said of the Polish National Catholic Church (PNCC)? Given your logic about the Orthodox churches, it would seem to me that the PNCC also has apostolic […]
David Spesia: Eucharistic dynamic is tough, but fulfilling
COMMENTARY Jesus’ entire existence was Eucharistic. If you and I are going to live as his disciples and respond wholeheartedly to the gift of his grace, our lives need to be marked by a Eucharistic dynamic. This Eucharistic dynamic is as simple as it is profound. It emerges most clearly on the night before Our […]
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