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.
What matters most November 4, 2024By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary Across the political spectrum, friendships end, coworkers’ relationships are tested and family members become estranged because we have lost sight of the fact that, no matter how important this or that election may seem, Christ has called us to love our neighbor as ourselves.
Proclaim the good news in this election cycle October 16, 2024By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary You don’t need to attack a candidate to explain why this policy that he has proposed, or that action that her administration has taken, doesn’t align with Catholic teaching.
A moderately important election October 5, 2024By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary To argue that we must compromise the church’s moral and social teaching so that we may cast a vote for “the lesser of two evils” is to declare implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) that Christianity is of only moderate importance compared with the electoral politics of the day.
Insta-culture and a powerful Advent lesson on delayed gratification November 23, 2023By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary What economists call “delayed gratification” is simply not part of American life anymore — and that’s as true of Catholics and other Christians as it is of the average American.
Doubting Thomas, science and the point of eucharistic knowledge September 14, 2023By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist In a world in which only knowledge that is derived from the scientific method is regarded as true, such miracles may reinvigorate the faith of those doubting Thomases for whom seeing is believing.
‘Our Father’: transcending time into an eternal flow of mercy September 11, 2023By Scott P. Richert Filed Under: Commentary That priest, in giving me that particular penance that day, stirred something within me that I can only describe with the Greek word anamnesis, the act of memory, central to the Christian liturgy, that makes what we remember truly present for us again.
