Embracing the Prince of Peace January 27, 2026By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary As the United States and, indeed, the world are being shaken by seismic shifts in American domestic politics and U.S. foreign policy, we find ourselves asking how to bring our faith to bear in a public square increasingly hostile to its teachings.
Creation, human and divine July 18, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary We can, in other words, move beyond our bubble, to become more than ourselves — or, rather, to become the selves that we were always meant to be, because we were created by God and redeemed by His Son and sanctified by His Holy Spirit — all realities in which no AI can ever share, no matter how much it might, through a combination of increasing accuracy and (ironically) “hallucination,” come to mimic human consciousness.
A pope for our time June 6, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican I’ve also had an absolute conviction, from the moment that his papal name was announced, that this pontificate will have an historical significance to rival that of John Paul II’s, Leo XIII’s, and Pius IX’s.
Pope Francis, RIP May 2, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Remembering Pope Francis Throughout his pontificate, with the fire and occasional cantankerousness of some of the early fathers of the church, Pope Francis admonished us to quit worrying about the sins, real and imagined, of others, and to see in them the face of our Savior — and to serve him through serving them.
Beyond the veil April 20, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Easter As we leave the 40 days of Lent behind us and once again boldly shout “Alleluia!” in the joy of Christ’s Resurrection, may we make a conscious effort this Easter season to set aside our childish literal-mindedness and search for the symbols in our lives that allow us a glimpse beyond the veil of this material world to the kingdom that is both yet to come and, in Christ, already here.
All that I am April 7, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary As Christians, we boldly speak the name of our Savior, and in doing so we both acknowledge him as God and dare to utter the divine name, for the word Jesus means “I AM saves.”
Take up your cross March 5, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent The only aspect of Christianity that the modern world seems willing to accept is service to others — so long as we don’t mention that we’re serving Christ in them.
Look to the skies February 17, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary When we experience the beauty of a sunset and that yearning in our soul, we may grasp for just a moment what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God.
In this holy mystery January 16, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments With our eyes reopened by the Fathers, we can now see that meaning hidden in plain sight in “the mysteries of the Rosary” and in “the mystery of Faith” in the eucharistic prayer in the Mass.
Breathing life back into the world January 3, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary This destruction wrought by the modern world has theological implications, because Christ, St. John the Evangelist tells us, is the ultimate Word, the fullness of Truth, who gives every other word its meaning and its life.
Glory to the newborn King December 22, 2024By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary Even today, when our virtual “connections” have led to the widespread destruction of face-to-face and day-to-day literal connections, our hearts still long for the ties that George Bailey strained so long against.
In my end is my beginning November 20, 2024By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary For those of us who have been united through baptism to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the last day of each of our lives does not fade away into eternal night but opens onto a new day, at the height of which we will rest in the glorious splendor of the perpetual light of God, every moment of our lives on this earth held in his eternal memory.
