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.
Silence in a noisy world October 1, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints The noise of this world makes a home in our minds. God’s soft, silent sounds live in our hearts. We all need more silence.
You don’t have to be a superhero to honor the Season of Creation September 17, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Environment A prayerful nature walk, reflecting on the gift of our environment, is a great way to honor the Season of Creation.
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.”
Walking with saints August 4, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints I’m inspired by the old adage, “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” I’m called to ask, what saints have influenced me? How am I called to be a saint? And how do “my” saints walk with me on that journey?
How and why to laugh like a saint July 17, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints Hearing that Ignatius’ rooms were full of laughter is a good reminder at a time when so many Americans are feeling anxious. We are, after all, in a Jubilee year of hope. We are Pilgrims of Hope. But I, like many, struggle with hope.
Jesus doesn’t leave us alone in the night June 16, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary There are faith-sharing groups out there that beckon us. There are food banks and Catholic charities serving the unhoused and the migrant that need our help.
God’s dazzling creation June 2, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Environment Regulations must not be relaxed for the sake of corporate greed, but must be built on the common good of all, including our grandchildren. It’s what our faith teaches, and it’s really as simple as that.
The doors we open May 20, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican He commands no armies, but we pray desperately that Pope Leo’s moral weight, and ours as he guides us, can make the world and our country a more peaceful place, a community of love and welcome, a place where all are respected and the common good is the common standard.
In a dark world, look for the helpers May 2, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Remembering Pope Francis Pope Francis was a helper and he encouraged helpers everywhere.
Looking toward the dawn at Easter April 16, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary It’s difficult to think of laughter when you see the suffering of the men who languish, none of them having access to due process, in a brutal foreign prison. But as Christians we are called to hope, even in the midst of night.
Rain and tears April 3, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent As the rain falls softly, we know the lesson of Lent: that as we listen to God’s voice in our lives, we also stand on sacred ground.
