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.
God will provide October 15, 2025By Father Scott Fyall OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vocations Anyone who has had a loved one diagnosed with cancer knows how painful and scary it is. Yet, in that moment and throughout my four years in Rome, the Holy Spirit placed a resounding message in my heart: God will provide.
The life of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, 130 years after his birth October 15, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Evangelization, Saints Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. Once dubbed “God’s microphone,” Sheen announced God’s truth in a nonconfrontational, yet no less life-giving, manner to untold millions through radio, print and television.
Question Corner: In families involved in occult practices, does baptism free their infants from such things? October 15, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Besides the rite of major exorcism, the church also has several “minor exorcisms” in her treasury of prayers. A minor exorcism is a prayer for protection against and deliverance from evil spirits which can be prayed by any priest in scenarios other than demonic possession.
What makes us leave, what helps us stay October 14, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I was thinking about how often people share with me their reasons for leaving a particular parish.
