‘A Christmas Carol’ December 23, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary I don’t know about you, but I make a point of giving “A Christmas Carol” a fresh reading every year, and it never disappoints.
Thanksgiving to whom? November 25, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Thanksgiving is one of those few national holidays when a semi-religious sentiment is allowed.
Newman on conversion November 8, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Uncategorized Despite significant opposition, someone persists in a life-changing decision at least partly because the opposition has the unanticipated consequence of reinforcing the determination to persist.
Election year manners October 3, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary Our politicians lately have been setting a bad example (again?) for the rest of us via their so-called debates.
A look ahead at the Supreme Court’s fall term September 23, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life, Supreme Court When the Supreme Court opens for business again Oct. 7, it will have before it for argument and eventual decision in the term ahead at least three cases directly involving the protection of children and young people.
Is the synodal process the product? September 8, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Synodality Only time will tell whether, as synod organizers keep insisting, the Synod on Synodality has produced a real groundswell of support among the laity for making the process called synodality a permanent feature of church life.
Knights’ success built on founder’s desire for charity May 23, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Knights of Columbus Father Michael J. McGivney was just one more of that band of hardworking Irish-American priests who spent themselves building up the church in America in the latter years of the 19th century. But in one truly extraordinary respect, he was unique:
Does every moment count? April 25, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Like words for a poet, color for a painter and sound for a composer, time is everybody’s medium for shaping a life devoted to loving and serving God and neighbor.
Subject of a new film, Mother Cabrini left native Italy to serve U.S. immigrants February 25, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Saints, World News Mother Cabrini is the subject of “Cabrini,” a new film from Angel Studios directed by Alejandro Monteverde scheduled for nationwide release March 8.
Author Flannery O’Connor shared her faith through fiction February 2, 2024By Russell Shaw Filed Under: Books, Commentary Flannery O’Connor was not an evangelist. She was an artist, one of the most gifted American fiction writers of the 20th century. But a profoundly Catholic theological vision informs her art, giving her stories resonance and depth that sound deep — and sometimes deeply disturbing — spiritual chords.
Humpty Dumpty, blessings and the masters of meaning January 15, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Commentary As the flurry of distressed reactions to this declaration reminds us, the Catholic vision of marriage, family life, and human sexuality exists in a secular environment that regards the faith with profound hostility.
Leveling hierarchical distinctions while further clericalizing the laity November 8, 2023By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Synodality The synod’s more immediate goal was the less dramatic, but in the long run arguably more significant, objective of cutting back on clergy-only hierarchy.
