For nearly five decades, overturning Roe v. Wade was the Holy Grail of the pro-life movement. The midterm elections, however, …
A Man Called Otto
By John Mulderig NEW YORK (OSV News) — The transformation of a grump into a warm and fuzzy character is …
Focusing on Your Primary Vocation
Last week, I began sharing my top three life priorities that keep me focused on living a meaningful, Christ-centered life. …
In the Swarm: The Liturgy and Liquid Identity
Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of « liquid modernity » is one of my recurring topics of exploration. To put it briefly, our age prizes flexibility …
Catholics organize to bring the fight to ‘demonic’ human trafficking
By Gina Christian (OSV News) — While teaching in a Louisiana public elementary school several years ago, Janice Henry was …
Story of a Solstice
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Johanna Caton, O.S.B. Story of a Solstice “He was preaching …
In one of last interviews Cardinal Pell told OSV News: ‘We are not masters of the apostolic tradition, but its defenders and servants’
(OSV News) — In what was one of his last on-the-record interviews, Australian Cardinal George Pell, former prefect of the …
Eschatology: Hell, Purgatory, Heaven
I. HELL No quibbling helps here: the idea of eternal damnation, which had taken ever clearer shape in the Judaism …
There is No Fear In Love
So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love …
In Memoriam: Benedict XVI (1927–2022)
His room in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican is now empty, though its arrangement still suggests him. The …