A little soap for the nation’s potty mouth November 25, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary This Advent, as we barrel toward Christmas, let’s make an early resolution to dial back the potty mouth.
Raising their voice for justice October 30, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Commentary, Immigration and Migration This year, however, the annual November meeting in Baltimore has an opportunity to take a public stand on an issue that is roiling the neighborhoods and parishes of many American communities — the current administration’s aggressive campaign to seize and deport undocumented immigrants.
Hatred and learning from history October 7, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Racial Justice, Religious Freedom This is a story of great relevance for Catholics, for we were one of the three groups most targeted by the Klan, along with Blacks and Jews.
The sounds of silence September 5, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary People like us who come to visit the properties have the same quiet demeanor one finds in a cemetery. We walk among ghosts.
Our unexpected pope May 12, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican It is a reminder, as always, that when it comes to scoring papabile, usually those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know.
Our heart of darkness May 6, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Racial Justice The treatment of the undocumented — calling them vermin, terrorists, criminals — is hardening us.
‘Put no trust in princes’ April 1, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary, DOGE cuts We as Catholics are asked to assess how Christian or moral an administration is not by its members or its rhetoric, but by its actions.
Called not to be served but to serve March 3, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Pope Francis in his dozen years and counting has reformed the curia, overhauled Vatican finances, brought women and laymen into positions of authority, and appointed cardinals from the periphery rather than just the traditional cardinalate sees.
In Pacific Palisades, paradise lost January 10, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Disaster Relief Like marauders galloping out of the foothills, the flames swept down on the community that liked to call itself a village, as if its boutique shops and restaurants somehow protected it from a harsher world.
Pope Francis likes a joke January 9, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Comedy can sting a little, but these days the rage can overwhelm the laughs.
Getting adult children to Christmas Mass December 19, 2024By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Marriage & Family Life It’s a tough time to be a Catholic parent these days. While there are some young adults who are embracing their Catholicism, often even its most traditional manifestations, the much larger number of Catholic younger adults have at best a tenuous connection with the faith of their father and mother.
Men behaving beastly November 4, 2024By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Too many of our gender are guided only by impulses and appetites.
