Let God choose your Lent February 8, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent Lent can feel a lot like a competition, a 40-day spiritual marathon with winners and losers.
Faith signaling: What you see may not be what you get January 16, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary As the primaries heat up, we should guard ourselves against uncritically supporting candidates who know how to present themselves on the political stage as devout Catholics or concerned Christians.
The greatest New Year’s challenge: Letting go January 2, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Being attached to anything other than God himself will prevent me from living in the fullness and freedom of his grace.
Unity is impossible? Here’s what a 450-Year-Old, 40-part motet can teach us December 1, 2023By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Arts & Culture, Commentary The richness of 40 distinct voices lifts the soul upward, but also outward.
Catholics and Jews and Jesus, the King November 16, 2023By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Crisis in Israel Antisemitism has continued to rise around the world for the past decade, but what has unfolded since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians demands our attention and response.
Does Purgatory really exist? ‘I hope so,’ said the priest November 2, 2023By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary In purgatory, we will finally become all we were created to be, what God deems what we’d call the “best version of ourselves.”
Eucharistic heart of Mary: Tabernacle, Monstrance and Minister May 16, 2023By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist Catholics who want to grow in holiness and virtue can’t do much better than focusing on the two pillars of our spiritual treasure — the Eucharist and Mary – which anchor us as little else can.