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Russell Shaw

Russell Shaw, a veteran journalist and writer, is the author of more than 20 books, including three novels.

Who is St. Augustine, the father of Pope Leo XIV’s order?

May 13, 2025
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News

“Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” St. Augustine’s famous words addressed to God introduce his account of how a headstrong, self-indulgent young man became one of the most important Christian thinkers of all time and a saint — and the father of the Augustinian order, to which Pope Leo XIV belongs.

Who was Pope Leo XIII, the father of social doctrine?

May 8, 2025
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost has selected the name Pope Leo XIV, an apparent nod to Pope Leo XIII, who deserves to be called the founding father of Catholic social doctrine in modern times, with his encyclical “Rerum Novarum” as its foundational document.

The modern popes: Get to know the 11 popes before Francis

April 30, 2025
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News

The following is a snapshot of the papacies of the 11 popes that preceded Pope Francis, from Pope Benedict XVI to Blessed Pope Pius IX.

Pope Francis and persistent habit of ‘maybe’

April 24, 2025
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Remembering Pope Francis

The legacy of Pope Francis is large and complex, with plenty of high points. But part of it is ambiguity and verbal confusion on matters of church doctrine, pointing to a need for clarification by whoever succeeds Francis on the chair of Peter.

Pope St. John Paul II: Witness to the world

April 2, 2025
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints

John Paul was an ecumenical and interreligious innovator.

Holiday message of ‘The Loved One’

January 8, 2025
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

True faith rejoices in knowing that the life we celebrate at the stable in Bethlehem is the real answer to death.

‘A Christmas Carol’

December 23, 2024
By 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, 2024
By 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, 2024
By 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, 2024
By 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, 2024
By 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, 2024
By 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.

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