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.
Challenges of being a Catholic voter September 30, 2024By Greg Erlandson 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 September 4, 2024By Greg Erlandson 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? August 1, 2024By Greg Erlandson 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 May 30, 2024By Greg Erlandson 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.
Father Justin explains it all for you May 2, 2024By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary This digital Father Justin was ready to answer your questions about the faith, at least until the Catholic internet got a hold of it.
Let’s celebrate Easter for a while March 29, 2024By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, Lent Express gratitude for the blessing that this, the greatest feast in the church calendar, truly is.
‘You will never wash my feet!’ February 26, 2024By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent In our highly polarized society that has divided everyone into “us” and “them,” the apparent incompatibility of the washer and the washee is exactly the point of the ad.
How deep are our divisions? January 24, 2024By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Political identity has become a “meta-identity,” impacting not just our politics but where we live, how we pray, who we associate with.
