Smile — it’s Lent! March 3, 2025By Bill Dodds OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent Lent isn’t just a time for repairing what you’ve failed to maintain. It can be a time for refurbishing, revising and revitalizing. For getting started on “You 2.0.”
Question on a busy morning March 2, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I was rinsing dishes in the sink when my younger son—who’s 15—came into the kitchen. “So, what will it be like when we go to college?” he said. “Will you miss us?”
A Catholic look at this year’s Oscar Best Picture nominees February 28, 2025By Sister Hosea Rupprecht OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Here’s how the eight out of 10 films I was able to see hold up in the human dignity department.
Question Corner: Why can’t non-Catholics receive Communion? February 26, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Question Corner Under ordinary circumstances, the church does not allow non-Catholics to receive Holy Communion. But this discipline is not meant to “keep people away from Jesus.”
Reviving monasticism February 26, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vocations Monasticism first emerged as a lay movement focused on cultivating a deep and radical love for both God and neighbor.
Mom and historian Nadya Williams explores the role of mothers, human dignity and modern society February 24, 2025By Charlie Camosy OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life Nadya Williams, a classicist and historian who walked away from academia to be a stay-at-home mom, recently spoke with OSV News’ Charlie Camosy about her new book “Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity.”
This little (broken) light of mine February 23, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Here comes Lent. God gives us this season not just to reflect on Jesus’ life, suffering, and sacrifice for us, but also to offer us a chance to lean on him, to walk with him, and to find ways to open ourselves up to his love.
Pope Francis: ‘The church is not an NGO but a love story’ February 21, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary The ongoing lesson of the crucifix is that sometimes disturbing things are permitted so that something great might be enabled to occur.
What is Catholic social teaching? February 20, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary Catholic social teaching is one of the tools given by the church to guide us in living this call. Founded in Scripture and developed further through a series of papal documents, the social teaching of the church provides direction for how we are to live with our neighbor.
Question Corner: Why can’t the church offer a completely gluten-free host? February 19, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Question Corner It is true that actual wheat must be used in a valid celebration of the Eucharist, but there are still ways to receive holy Communion even as a Catholic with a severe gluten intolerance.
A Eucharistic Word: Embodied February 19, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist Much of our “practice” of Catholicism is cooperating with God’s grace so that the Word is made flesh in us.
Family is where we learn to serve the least among us February 18, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life Family is the way that we learn to love, serve and humble ourselves over and over again to care for Christ in our midst.
