Question Corner: Is there any way to know how long a person might be in purgatory? October 22, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Saints Generally, there is no clear way to know whether or not someone is still in purgatory.
Dying from compassion October 22, 2025By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life, The Catholic Difference This descent into emotivism and sentimentality has profound consequences for society as well as for individuals.
Make good trouble October 20, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Racial Justice If you attend a church which blocks misfits, you’re in the wrong church. Jesus welcomed misfits — the Samaritan woman, the leper, the woman “caught in the very act” of adultery, the tax collector.
Leo’s first official text October 17, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican “Dilexi Te” manifests both Pope Leo’s recognition that we need to grow in unity and subtly illustrates a means to bring such unity to a fractured church, something he has spoken of from the earliest days of his pontificate.
God will provide October 15, 2025By Father Scott Fyall OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vocations Anyone who has had a loved one diagnosed with cancer knows how painful and scary it is. Yet, in that moment and throughout my four years in Rome, the Holy Spirit placed a resounding message in my heart: God will provide.
The life of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, 130 years after his birth October 15, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Evangelization, Saints Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. Once dubbed “God’s microphone,” Sheen announced God’s truth in a nonconfrontational, yet no less life-giving, manner to untold millions through radio, print and television.
Question Corner: In families involved in occult practices, does baptism free their infants from such things? October 15, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Besides the rite of major exorcism, the church also has several “minor exorcisms” in her treasury of prayers. A minor exorcism is a prayer for protection against and deliverance from evil spirits which can be prayed by any priest in scenarios other than demonic possession.
What makes us leave, what helps us stay October 14, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I was thinking about how often people share with me their reasons for leaving a particular parish.
Planting and reaping October 14, 2025By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Commentary Sometimes, you even plant unintentionally, by the way you live your life. If you live like a follower of Jesus, that should show in what you do and say. By being kind and not adding to the divisiveness we experience today, you can be an example for others on how to treat our fellow humans.
Evidence of mercy amid the madness October 13, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Gun Violence Thanks to the availability of instantaneous, global communication and our addiction to it, 21st century humans are permitted — perhaps condemned is a better word — to witness daily episodes of brutality and violence and, particularly over the past few months, horrendous killings.
Liturgy of the Hours 101: Don’t be intimidated October 10, 2025By Daria Sockey OSV News Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Worship & Sacraments The Liturgy of the Hours is a repeating four-week cycle of psalms, biblical canticles, prayers and Scripture readings that has been part of the church’s public prayer — in one form or another — almost from the beginning. The prayers vary in accordance with the liturgical season and also — like the Mass — commemorate the feasts of the church calendar.
‘Dilexi Te’ defined by charity, continuity and unity October 9, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Described as an exercise in “continuity” with Pope Francis, the apostolic exhortation is an ode to the 265th Successor of Peter while at the same time a further indicator of the priorities of the 266th.
