The Crayon costume October 27, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church Whatever new challenges you undertake during this season, may you find they give you strength, clarity of purpose or whatever you are seeking on your faith journey.
Why divine justice demands two judgments after death October 27, 2025By Paul Thigpen OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Death puts an end to the time the individual has been granted for embracing God’s grace or rejecting it.
‘You’re Here! You’re Here’ October 26, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I love thinking of God’s love in that way, how he loves us simply as we are, with no expectation for what we might achieve.
The end of the world as we know it: What the Catholic Church teaches about the last days October 26, 2025By Carl E. Olson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary For Catholics, the terms “end times” and “last days” refer both to the conclusion of history at some future point, and also — even primarily — to the last 2,000 years.
Understanding and planning Catholic funerals October 25, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments Catholic funerals express the Christian hope in eternal life and the resurrection of the body on the last day. Every component of Catholic funeral rites should express these fundamental beliefs and hopes.
Gospel of Matthew serves as bridge to Old Testament October 24, 2025By Karl A. Schultz OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Matthew’s emphasis on forgiveness can provide us consolation and hope as we recognize our inability to live up to the tenets of the Sermon on the Mount and other moral requirements.
What does the church say about brain death and the ethics of organ donation? October 24, 2025By Charlie Camosy OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Father Anthony Stoeppel, a diocesan priest of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas and professor of church management at the Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Busine
Clean-up in Aisle 9 October 22, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window How often we create messes in our lives—whether we’re spilling something in aisle nine, hurting someone’s feelings, or taking a step that causes issues.
Question Corner: Is there any way to know how long a person might be in purgatory? October 22, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Saints Generally, there is no clear way to know whether or not someone is still in purgatory.
Dying from compassion October 22, 2025By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life, The Catholic Difference This descent into emotivism and sentimentality has profound consequences for society as well as for individuals.
Make good trouble October 20, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Racial Justice If you attend a church which blocks misfits, you’re in the wrong church. Jesus welcomed misfits — the Samaritan woman, the leper, the woman “caught in the very act” of adultery, the tax collector.
Leo’s first official text October 17, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican “Dilexi Te” manifests both Pope Leo’s recognition that we need to grow in unity and subtly illustrates a means to bring such unity to a fractured church, something he has spoken of from the earliest days of his pontificate.
