Question Corner: Without a pope, how do we fulfill the indulgence requirement of praying for the pope’s intentions? May 7, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner The general understanding among canon lawyers is that indulgences can still be earned during an “interregnum period” — meaning, during the period between the death or resignation of a pope and the election of his successor — because there does not need to be a reigning pope in order for the faithful to pray for the pope’s intentions.
Masses of mourning or papal auditions? May 6, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Commentary Those wielding power in these days should not be able to use official days of mourning to try to shape a conclave, especially if it’s true that the conclave is to be exercised in freedom and open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
A Grandmother’s Roses May 6, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window The rain is just what the rosebush needs.
Our heart of darkness May 6, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Racial Justice The treatment of the undocumented — calling them vermin, terrorists, criminals — is hardening us.
St. Carlo and timing May 3, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints Eighty thousand adolescents thought they were traveling to Rome for the much-anticipated canonization of Carlo Acutis. Instead, many were in the Eternal City for the Holy Father’s funeral.
In a dark world, look for the helpers May 2, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Remembering Pope Francis Pope Francis was a helper and he encouraged helpers everywhere.
Pope Francis, RIP May 2, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Remembering Pope Francis Throughout his pontificate, with the fire and occasional cantankerousness of some of the early fathers of the church, Pope Francis admonished us to quit worrying about the sins, real and imagined, of others, and to see in them the face of our Savior — and to serve him through serving them.
What’s missing? May 1, 2025By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Child & Youth Protection, Commentary If the state wants to show that reducing caps for those who sue the state for abuse is not “just about the money,” then Gov. Moore and other state officials need to go on a listening tour and meet face to face with victim-survivors, particularly those who were abused in state-run institutions.
Queen of the May April 30, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Once upon a time I was a second grader at St. Pius X School in Towson. One day, our teacher, Sister Suzanne, announced to my class that it was time to prepare for the May Procession.
Europe and America April 30, 2025By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, Uncategorized American public officials are more likely to be heard if they call on our parent civilization to reclaim the nobility that defeated fascism, Nazism, and communism: a defense of human dignity in which Americans and Europeans contested for the future shoulder to shoulder.
Question Corner: What are my Easter duties? April 30, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, Question Corner In broad terms, “the Easter duty” usually refers to a fully initiated Catholic’s obligation to make a good sacramental confession and receive holy Communion every year around the time of Easter.
Laying odds on papabili, and our ‘vulgar’ church April 29, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Commentary A tidy church would be a dead church, so we may as well just keep to our ugly, vulgar and unseemly ways, remembering that (somehow) we, as church, have birthed so much wisdom and beauty century after tawdry human century!
