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Commentary

A hymn to human dignity

February 10, 2025
By Sister Constance Veit, L.S.P.
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Health Care, Jubilee 2025

Let’s get started and lend our voices to this symphony through our charity to the sick and the elderly on the World Day of the Sick!

Bringing clarity, context to the U.S. bishops’ stance in immigration debate

February 7, 2025
By Archbishop Thomas Wenski
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration

Most Americans do want a solution to the perceived chaos on our borders. The U.S. bishops following Catholic social teaching do recognize that national sovereignty affords nations’ the right to control their borders. We have never advocated for “open borders” or that “bad actors” should be admitted indiscriminately or that wrong doers of any type be free to roam our streets and endanger our citizens.

Analysis: New immigration policies risk sending migrants back to failed states, war zones

February 7, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary, Immigration and Migration

As part of swift and sweeping changes to immigration policy, the Trump administration is aiming to end or severely curtail two forms of immigration status that have been granted to hundreds of thousands escaping war, disaster, violence and humanitarian crises — Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole.

What is keeping you from heaven?

February 7, 2025
By Ava Lalor
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

The only one who can keep us from heaven is ourselves.

Meditating on Christ’s passion with St. Thomas More

February 6, 2025
By Lauretta Brown
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints

These last written words from St. Thomas More offered a timely reminder to have courage and lean on Christ in the face of struggles new and old for his strength “is made perfect in weakness.”

Catholics, Hippocrates, and reforming American medicine 

February 6, 2025
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Health Care, Respect Life, The Catholic Difference

The willful participation of physicians and other medical professionals in the practice of abortion flatly contradicts the Hippocratic Oath — long the moral framework for sound medical practice — in its original form.

Marriage: A sacrament of lasting love

February 5, 2025
By Heidi and Cory Busse
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life

Married life gives us a glimpse of the eternal union of God and his church and calls each spouse to build the other up for everlasting life in heaven.

Question Corner: Can you receive Communion twice in one day?

February 5, 2025
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Question Corner

A faithful Catholic may indeed receive holy Communion twice in one day — but the second reception must be within the context of a Mass.

Freedom of worship for migrants

February 4, 2025
By Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Religious Freedom

While a raid on church property may not be a legal threat to religious liberty in every circumstance, it is certainly a moral one.

On the journey toward sainthood

February 4, 2025
By Effie Caldarola
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints

We remember Brother James on Feb. 13, the anniversary of his martyrdom, and pray for a miracle to advance his cause for canonization.

A red and gold cake in the shape of a coiled snake

Lunar New Year: This Year Takes the Snake (Cake)

February 3, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window, Uncategorized

The timing of the holiday is always just what I need—a festival that arrives in between the gap of the rejoicing of Christmas and the warmth and light of springtime. Here we are in the in-between times, celebrating with food and loved ones and fun.

You have my permission to cry and shout

February 3, 2025
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

How many of us are walking around with broken hearts because we won’t permit ourselves the medicine of weeping and fully feeling the things we’ve determinedly repressed because we want that illusion of strength?

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