Question Corner: Why do we need confession if Jesus’ death cleansed us from our sins? April 9, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments We know that God is totally loving and merciful, and is always ready to forgive. And this is why Jesus left the church with the sacrament of penance, to provide a means for reconciliation after post-baptismal sins.
Worn out before God by the noisy, tiresome digital age April 8, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, social media God is good and full of mercy, with plans for us — plans of fullness, not of harm. Increasingly I feel called to serve that reality, to quiet down and let the frenzied world turn its terrible ways while in the grips of a chaos magic that has been increasing in its scope for many decades.
Surprise! It’s a…giraffe! April 7, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window A baby giraffe. A new little—well, not so little—life in the world. It was just the spark of joy this gray April day needed.
All that I am April 7, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary As Christians, we boldly speak the name of our Savior, and in doing so we both acknowledge him as God and dare to utter the divine name, for the word Jesus means “I AM saves.”
Exploring the principles of natural law and what they mean for human flourishing today April 7, 2025By Charlie Camosy OSV News Filed Under: Commentary OSV News’ Charlie Camosy recently spoke with Melissa Moschella, professor of the practice in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life and author of “Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing,” about the Catholic tradition surrounding this concept and its special importance and relevance in society today.
Rain and tears April 3, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent As the rain falls softly, we know the lesson of Lent: that as we listen to God’s voice in our lives, we also stand on sacred ground.
All that we offer April 2, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window When I make beef vegetable soup, I am incapable of making the right amount for our family of four. We always end up with extra. So, after I made a pot of soup this week, I texted my sister to see if she’d like some for her, her husband, and their six children. Treasa wrote […]
Pope St. John Paul II: Witness to the world April 2, 2025By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints John Paul was an ecumenical and interreligious innovator.
God really loves me April 2, 2025By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Evangelization This year’s Rite of Election in the Archdiocese of Baltimore was beautiful. The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen was filled to overflowing. Nearly 800 catechumens and candidates for reception into the church were joined by their godparents, sponsors, families and friends.
Question Corner: Can I attend a non-Catholic wedding? April 2, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner If a Catholic attends a clearly invalid wedding in the normal festive spirit, they are celebrating something which is, at least objectively “on paper,” a falsehood.
Loving sinners, admonishing sin April 2, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent If the Cross of Christ shows us anything, it is that loving sinners requires a willingness to suffer.
‘Put no trust in princes’ April 1, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary, DOGE cuts We as Catholics are asked to assess how Christian or moral an administration is not by its members or its rhetoric, but by its actions.
