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 unexpected pope
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican
Our heart of darkness
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
Too many of our gender are guided only by impulses and appetites.
Challenges of being a Catholic voter
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary, Respect Life
Most Catholics are trying to make the best prudential decision while a lot of people are yelling at them with their opinions.
Dealing with pandemic PTSD
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus
Since COVID is still evolving, I think it is too soon to say we’ve reached a genetic truce, but it is certainly easy to say we’ve accepted it as just one more of life’s indignities.
Is every Sunday a wasted opportunity?
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Worship & Sacraments
The goal should be to help average adult Catholics know what it is they profess to believe, what it is they are participating in each Sunday, and what it means to be a baptized Christian in today’s world.
Celebrating the class of 2024
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus
I am going to be more than a little interested to see how the graduating class of 2024 turns out, but in my mind, theirs may be our Resilient Generation.
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