Helping kids and teens cope with the threat of school violence September 3, 2025By Joseph D. White OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Schools Tips for parents on managing children’s worries about school shootings
AI tips for students September 3, 2025By Sister Hosea Rupprecht OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Schools As students of all ages return to the classroom, educators are faced with all the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can help or hinder their students’ learning.
Time for college move-in day August 31, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I don’t want to say I’ve become a college move-in enthusiast, but I love our nieces and nephews, and I love visiting college campuses.
All creation gives praise: Seeking God — and wonder — in cosmos August 31, 2025By Leonard J. DeLorenzo OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Wonder takes time; it is more than surprise and interruption. Wonder is a relationship of intimacy, where you find yourself in awe at something that is beyond you, which becomes more fascinating the longer you dwell with it.
Question Corner: Does the church ever use the word ‘divorce’ or does it only talk about ‘annulment?’ August 27, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Sometimes people have the mistaken idea that “annulments” are some kind of Catholic-approved divorce, but this is not at all accurate.
On the road to Our Lady: How pilgrimage taught me the power of community August 26, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Jubilee 2025, Marian Devotion This is the church I saw on the pilgrimage: poor, weak, stripped of pretenses, yet strong in suffering and stronger in Christ. This is the church I walked with.
What a beautiful family August 25, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life The Body of Christ is a beautiful, diverse family. We are single and married, divorced and widowed. We have built families through adoption and fostering, marriage and birth.
Farewell to a beautiful summer August 24, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Summer is coming to a close, and the school year is beginning.
Revealing Leo August 21, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican As certain factions of the church who want to claim Leo for their “side” become increasingly anxious to see him start taking more decisive action on thorny issues, it’s clear that what we know most about him is that he is a disciple of Jesus Christ.
Question Corner: Why don’t bishops excommunicate politicians who support abortion? August 20, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner While the act of directly causing an abortion is a canonical crime that is punished with an automatic excommunication, (see Canon 1397, 2) this only applies in scenarios where a particular individual actually brought about an abortion personally — and not in situations where a person promoted abortion in a more abstract way.
Our story doesn’t end with the cross August 20, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration Father Strassburger reminded me that the “Christian story doesn’t end with the cross. It ends with the Resurrection.”
The last atomic bomb August 19, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary Our faith teaches us to seek peace instead of power and to persevere in that effort instead of giving in to posturing. That demands that we acknowledge the evil that all weapons of mass destruction make possible.
