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Lauretta Brown

Lauretta Brown is culture editor for OSV News. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) @LaurettaBrown6.

‘The Chosen’ Season 5 coming Lent 2025; Last Supper scene grounded in Roumie’s Eucharistic devotion

November 27, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News

Beginning March 27, the fifth season of the hit series “The Chosen,” which focuses on the life of Jesus and his closest disciples, will hit theaters in the weeks leading up to Easter, which is April 20. The latest installment, “The Chosen: Last Supper” portrays the events of Holy Week.

St. Jude relic tour halted over ‘incident’ involving students, visiting priest

November 25, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Saints, World News

A tour of a relic of St. Jude conducted by Father Carlos Martins, a priest with the Companions of the Cross order known for hosting “The Exorcist Files” podcast, was halted Nov. 21 following an alleged “incident” involving students, according to a statement from Queen of Apostles Church in the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois and from the diocese.

2024 Vatican document shaping USCCB resources on gender theory, love, human person

November 16, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News

Efforts to apply a 2024 Vatican document on human dignity to an American context and its “a radical emphasis on individual autonomy” are underway within three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Bishops hear update on plans to implement ministry of lay catechist set forth by pope

November 14, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News

Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, updated his fellow bishops Nov. 13 in Baltimore on his committee’s plans to implement the ministry of the lay catechist, a ministry set forward by Pope Francis in his May 2021 apostolic letter “Antiquum Ministerium.”

Bishops stress standing for dignity of human life following presidential election

November 13, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News

The Catholic Church “always insists on the dignity of the human person from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death, and we continue to insist on that,” Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said Nov. 12.

Fear, trust and walking through the valley of the shadow of death

November 13, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

Reflecting on the people’s faith helped him to see that, for the Christian, death “means no more and no less than the end of our testing period here on earth; it is a return, a going home, to the God and Father who first created us. It is not the end of life; the fact of the resurrection proves that beyond a doubt.”

Beauty and mystery in ‘The Mystical Theology’

October 14, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Commentary

In his “The Mystical Theology,” pseudo-Dionysius wrote that “theology is both immense and most small and that the Gospel is broad and great and yet concise” as “the Good Cause of all is expressed with many words and yet with few and is even wordless, for there is no word or knowledge able to express It.”

Reflecting with St. Edith Stein on the nature of women

September 12, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints, Vocations

Catholics today grapple with the role of women in the workforce as well as the role of the woman who is single by choice or circumstance.

Into the desert with St. Anthony of Egypt

August 12, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Saints

“The Life of St. Anthony of Egypt,” written by St. Athanasius, his contemporary and friend, tells the story of this great Desert Father and was a natural fit to read in the heat of July.

Priests say ‘edifying’ eucharistic congress has called the church ‘to something more’

August 9, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News

Lucas Oil football stadium was packed July 17 with tens of thousands of people completely silent in prayer before a large monstrance holding the Eucharist.

GIVEN forum equips young women to pursue their unique callings

June 8, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News

Over 300 Catholic women from all walks of life will gather in Washington from June 8 to 12 to participate in the GIVEN Art of Accompaniment Mentoring Program and the Catholic Women’s Leadership Forum. It will be the fifth GIVEN forum since the group’s founding; the previous forums were held in 2019, 2020 (online), 2021 and 2022.

Faith lived in love has ‘power to change history,’ says Cordileone as Eucharistic pilgrimage begins

May 19, 2024
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone told pilgrims at a Pentecost Mass launching the western route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage — the St. Junipero Serra Route — that the faith publicly lived in love has the “power to change history.”

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