God comes to us October 13, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I love a celestial phenomenon, but I never thought I would see the Northern Lights. I certainly didn’t imagine I would see them from my front porch, not far outside Baltimore, in a neighborhood full of light pollution. But then Thursday night happened. A colleague sent a message and encouraged us to look outside. There […]
Liturgical living is for adults, too October 11, 2024By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life Celebrating the church year can be as simple as changing your prayer habits in small ways or incorporating the liturgical seasons into daily life.
Finding meaning in wonder: A journey of the heart October 10, 2024By Brenda Noriega-flores OSV News Filed Under: Commentary By reflecting on our place in the world and articulating our understanding of ourselves in relation to God, we can chart a path toward the ultimate goal for every Christian: holiness.
A Mass of hope and sadness, and the necessary thing October 10, 2024By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Muscular evangelization is not helped by a plethora of crumbling church buildings and sacraments going unbestowed amid dying congregations; evangelization requires energy, and bringing young, enthusiastic believers into community together begets exactly the happy vigor needed to effectively share the faith.
Thinking of Eric today October 10, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window It has been seven years since my brother-in-law Eric died. It doesn’t feel that long, and yet it also feels like longer. Time can be so odd. Today, as we are missing him, I am thinking of how we never really lose the people we love. But I also know that there is an Eric-shaped […]
A father’s arms October 9, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church Through their lives and actions, our fathers teach us about love – and especially about God’s love for us.
How to help a grieving friend October 9, 2024By Lorene Hanley Duquin OSV News Filed Under: Commentary There is no magic formula for dealing with a grieving person. The best way to reach out to someone will depend on your relationship with that person and where he or she is in the grieving process.
Question Corner: What are ‘non-sacramental’ marriages? October 9, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner A valid marriage is essentially a marriage where the wedding “worked,” and produced a true bond. In contrast, an attempted marriage where one of these necessary elements was absent would be considered an “invalid” or “null” marriage.
The battles we fight October 7, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary It’s wise to acknowledge that not every fight can be won; that we may not have the resources to sustain a war on many fronts; that victory sometimes costs us more than we can afford
‘There Are Two’: Pope Gelasius and Jefferson’s ‘Wall of Separation’ October 5, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary We must reject the “wall of separation” as the formula for religious repression that it is.
Analysis: Trump’s proposed mandate aims to fund IVF’s large-scale destruction of human embryos October 5, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary, Respect Life IVF treatments — which fertilize an egg outside the body in a laboratory dish — are opposed by the Catholic Church because they frequently involve the destruction of human embryos, in addition to other ethical and moral issues.
A moderately important election October 5, 2024By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary To argue that we must compromise the church’s moral and social teaching so that we may cast a vote for “the lesser of two evils” is to declare implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) that Christianity is of only moderate importance compared with the electoral politics of the day.
