Catholic Review

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Jaymie Stuart Wolfe

Our Sunday Visitor is a Catholic publisher serving millions of Catholics globally through its publishing and communication services. Jaymie Stuart Wolfe is a Catholic convert, freelance writer and editor, musician, speaker, pet-aholic, wife and mom of eight grown children, loving life in New Orleans.

The virtue of patriotism


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OSV News Filed Under: Commentary

When we willingly serve those with whom we share a common life and a common good, all our relationships are reordered and directed toward charity. The love of neighbor expressed as authentic patriotism can bring this transformation to a societal scale.

The fisherman and the pharisee


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OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints

Peter and Paul could not have been more different from each other. But the liturgical wisdom that brought these two towering saints together in a shared feast underscores the fact that the church needed both the fisherman and the Pharisee — and still does.

Thérèse of Lisieux: 100 Years of Light


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OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints

As we have observed the death of Pope Francis, the conclave and the early days of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, the centenary of St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s canonization — May 17, 1925 — has mostly fallen off the radar. But the details of that momentous event are worth remembering.

St. Carlo and timing


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OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints

Eighty thousand adolescents thought they were traveling to Rome for the much-anticipated canonization of Carlo Acutis. Instead, many were in the Eternal City for the Holy Father’s funeral.

Total immersion


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OSV News Filed Under: Commentary

Catholic Christianity isn’t an extracurricular, or even a program of instruction. Nor is it merely a way to live our lives. Following Christ is life, and it comes with a language and culture all its own.

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