The Pride of Chicago May 29, 2025By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Commentary Pope Leo grew up with remarkably the same kind of life I did. Who would ever have thought such a thing would be possible? Certainly not me.
Five ways to prepare for Mass May 29, 2025By Father Ralph W. Talbot Jr. OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments Here are five simple things you can do to prepare for Mass. They aren’t difficult or time-consuming. But they are guaranteed to help you enter more deeply into the celebration of the Mass and achieve a more intimate union with Christ and the other members of the worshiping community.
Is immigration history in the United States cyclical? May 26, 2025By Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Racial Justice The same racism, which is not as overt as it was in the past, seems to be guiding our current immigration policy.
10 real quotes that Pope Leo has actually said May 24, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Get to know Pope Leo through this list of 10 things he’s actually said in the first days of his pontificate.
Scrambled eggs in the car, Confirmation joy, and Wordle losses (7 Quick Takes) May 23, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window It’s May, which means every now and then we have a night without baseball or a concert or some other commitment. Mostly, though, it’s a mad dash to the finish. Not to wish time away, but summer can start anytime. It’s my absolute favorite time of year.
Catholic social teaching is for everyone May 22, 2025By Jason Adkins OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary The modern tradition of Catholic social teaching — the toolbox of principles the church calls us to draw upon to build the just social order — was instigated by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903).
A Ticket to Pope Leo’s First Papal Audience May 21, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Back in early April, Abigail Benjamin submitted a request for tickets to attend a papal audience in May. Not many people were requesting tickets at the time, as a cardinal handled the papal audiences for an ailing Pope Francis. But Abigail felt she and her husband, Jon, should go. They could never have known that […]
On Ascension, absence and true love May 21, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Mothering is a presence that pulses in flesh and blood. A love that can never go absent, even when it looks like it has left.
Question Corner: Are the Gospels made up, nonhistorical accounts? May 21, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner It seems unlikely that these men would have been willing to suffer so intensely and give up so much if they themselves did not sincerely believe in the truth of what they were professing. Reasoning it out, what would have been the Apostles’ motivation for making up a new religion if it meant that they had everything to lose but nothing in this world to gain?
The doors we open May 20, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican He commands no armies, but we pray desperately that Pope Leo’s moral weight, and ours as he guides us, can make the world and our country a more peaceful place, a community of love and welcome, a place where all are respected and the common good is the common standard.
Thérèse of Lisieux: 100 Years of Light May 19, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints As we have observed the death of Pope Francis, the conclave and the early days of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, the centenary of St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s canonization — May 17, 1925 — has mostly fallen off the radar. But the details of that momentous event are worth remembering.
Christ at the center May 19, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican The way Pope Leo has put Christ at the center in these early days of his pontificate illustrates that Christ is no mere idea or role model.
