COMMENTARY As my mom grew older, she became less mobile. When we’d visit the mall she wouldn’t walk to the parking lot; we’d find a secure bench outside a store, and she would wait there for us to bring the car around. Often, when we’d drive up, Mom would be engaged in conversation with someone, […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Why can’t you marry in any church?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Why can’t a Catholic couple receive the sacrament of marriage at any church? My grandson and his fiancée chose Indianapolis as a midpoint of getting married, to help their family travel distances. They sought the ceremony at several churches but were declined because they were not parishioners. Our family is devastated and […]
Religious help U.S-bound migrants stranded near the Darien Gap
By Manuel Rueda OSV News CAPURGANA, Colombia — Jairo Hurtado entered the Darién jungle with all of his belongings stuffed into a backpack. He wore rubber boots to keep his feet dry on the muddy trails, and carried a machete to slash through the dense vegetation and “protect” himself from criminals who sometimes assault migrants […]
‘They bomb, we sing’
Papal almoner visits flooded Kherson in sixth Ukraine trip By Paulina Guzik OSV News After driving more than 1,900 miles, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, arrived in Kherson to show closeness to a community shattered by war and a devastating flood. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski started his visit to war-torn Ukraine June 25 “to assist those […]
Our Lady of Akita: ‘Those who place their confidence in me will be saved’
OSV News July 6 marked the 50th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady of Akita. On June 12, 1973, Sister Agnes Sasagawa of the Handmaids of the Eucharist began receiving heavenly visions in a convent located in Akita, Japan. At first she saw angelic beings worshipping the Eucharist, but then, on July 6, […]
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan: Did we go too far?
COMMENTARY While I was recently preparing my sermonette for Mass on the feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, I was reminded he died at only 23, having contracted the virus while ministering to victims of the plague in Rome. Then, on my radio show, I hosted “Conversation with Cardinal Dolan” on The Catholic Channel of Sirius […]
Michael R. Heinlein: Eucharist: remedy to sin
COMMENTARY “Because I always sin, I should always have a remedy.” These practical words of St. Ambrose, fourth-century bishop of Milan and doctor of the Church, point us to the unique relationship of the Eucharist to sin — a relationship that the Catechism pithily sums up by saying “holy Communion separates us from sin” (CCC […]
Anti-Christian sentiment increasing in the Holy Land
Posing as priest, reporter is spat at several times, while walking the streets of Jerusalem By Judith Sudilovsky OSV News JERUSALEM — A local Israeli reporter went undercover as a priest and was spat at several times while walking the streets of Jerusalem, Haaretz, the Israeli daily, reported. Haaretz underlined that at a time when […]
Sister Lucia spread Fatima message throughout her long life
By OSV News Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, the last surviving Fatima visionary, died in the Carmelite cloister in Coimbra, Portugal, in February 2005 at the age of 97. At the time of her death, St. John Paul II recalled their “bonds of spiritual friendship that intensified with the passing of time.” “I always felt […]
Mother Lange taught Black girls in slaveholding state
By OSV News Little is known about the early life of Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, whom Pope Francis declared “venerable” June 22. However, it is possible she may become one of the United States’ first Black Catholic saints. Likely of what today is Haitian ethnicity, Mother Lange — born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange — emigrated from […]
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