A match made by heaven December 4, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life The Bible clearly tells us that the happily ever after we all long for is a marriage.
Search for the true cross September 10, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints The story behind the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a fascinating mix of history and legend. In 326, 80-year-old St. Helen travels to the Holy Land with a grand and enduring purpose: To find the true cross, the one on which Jesus had been crucified.
The last atomic bomb August 19, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary Our faith teaches us to seek peace instead of power and to persevere in that effort instead of giving in to posturing. That demands that we acknowledge the evil that all weapons of mass destruction make possible.
Faith’s family tree August 5, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Our family histories vary widely. But all of us share a lineage of spiritual fathers and mothers whose words and deeds also make us what we are.
The virtue of patriotism July 14, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe 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 June 25, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe 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.
The Acts of the Apostles and ‘The Amazing Race’ June 7, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Despite every detour, U-Turn and even shipwreck their mission is always the same: to bring salvation in Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.
Thérèse of Lisieux: 100 Years of Light May 19, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe 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.
The choices of our new pope May 12, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary We do not yet know what choices Pope Leo will make. We can, however, pay close attention to the choices our new Holy Father has already made.
St. Carlo and timing May 3, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe 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.
7 reasons to pray for the cardinals in conclave May 2, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News As the College of Cardinals gathers in Rome for the conclave that will elect our next pope, the rest of us may feel like we have no real role to play in the process.
Lessons of suffering in the ‘Stabat Mater’ April 21, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Commentary What the “Stabat Mater” conveys, the sorrows of Mary witnessing the crucifixion of her son, is worth pondering.
