Lunar New Year: This Year Takes the Snake (Cake) February 3, 2025By 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, 2025By 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?
Exploring the growth of Catholic classical liberal arts education January 30, 2025By Charlie Camosy OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Schools Jay Boren, headmaster of St. Benedict Classical Academy since 2015, sees cultivating wisdom and virtue in the pursuit of truth and conformity to Christ as the final purpose of Catholic classical education.
Question Corner: Is non-alcoholic church wine valid for consecration? January 29, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments Canon 924 is telling us that the wine, which is to become the blood of Christ, must be something that can truly be considered “wine” in a strict sense.
5 things to know about the sacrament of reconciliation January 27, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments Here are five things you might not know, others you once learned but perhaps forgot, and inspiration to recommit daily to seeking closer friendship with God through repentance and fighting sin, wherever it is found.
Cherish the Time January 25, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window “But I remember those wonderful days with my boys in the house,” she said. “Cherish that time.”
Total immersion January 25, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Catholic Christianity isn’t an extracurricular, or even a program of instruction. Nor is it merely a way to live our lives. Following Christ is life, and it comes with a language and culture all its own.
The power of a ‘nudge’ to pray January 24, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Learning about the power of the nudge can help us make — and keep — new habits.
The missionary imperative of Catholic health care January 23, 2025By Jason Adkins OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Health Care More Catholics stepping into and supporting Catholic health care professionals who are living the mission, as well as living in solidarity with others through health-sharing organizations, can be antidotes to the increasing depersonalization of health care.
Rethinking immigration: An alternative to mass deportation January 22, 2025By Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration Before we turn to massive deportation programs, which are not only costly but also disruptive to society and especially family unity, perhaps a program to heal the wound of undocumented migration in our country should be attempted.
Question Corner: What is a consecrated virgin? January 22, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Vocations Consecrated virginity is a unique vocation for women in that it is centered in the local diocesan church rather than a particular group or religious community.
Ask for What You Need January 19, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Whatever is on your heart today, whether it seems insurmountable or insignificant, whether it’s for you or for someone you love, you can bring it to Jesus — directly or through his mother.
