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Commentary

Stained glass window shows guardian angel with boy and girl

Angels Surround Us

September 29, 2024
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

There’s something truly special about your guardian angel, your own personal companion through life.

Keeping (or making) Catholic education great

September 26, 2024
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Schools, The Catholic Difference

An authentic Catholic education is imbued with a Catholic worldview throughout the curriculum.

Question Corner: Why do Catholics emphasize the body more than the blood of Jesus in Communion reception?

September 25, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Question Corner

It is the consistent traditional practice in Eastern Catholic churches to administer Communion under both kinds as a matter of course.

Padre Pio is beloved but most people misunderstand why

September 25, 2024
By Father Patrick Briscoe
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Saints

Padre Pio had a keen awareness of sin, and most importantly, as Father John puts it, “He was abrupt and tough with some people and compassionate and gentle with others.”

Daily Catholic playbook

September 25, 2024
By Mark Viviano
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Full-Court Catholic

Our playbook always calls for us to receive: receive the love of God. It is by his love that we are created and why we exist.

A Little Less Like Me

September 23, 2024
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window, Uncategorized

Sometimes when a message comes my way, I don’t know whether God really means to send it to me.

The baby at Mass

September 23, 2024
By Rita Buettner
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church

Each of us has times when we are that squirming, fussing child at Mass.

A look ahead at the Supreme Court’s fall term

September 23, 2024
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life, Supreme Court

When the Supreme Court opens for business again Oct. 7, it will have before it for argument and eventual decision in the term ahead at least three cases directly involving the protection of children and young people.

A Eucharistic Word: Reception

September 20, 2024
By Michael R. Heinlein
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist

The Holy Eucharist is a treasure beyond compare, deserving our safeguarding and protection. We should and must be vigilant to ensure the Eucharist is not abused or desecrated.

We cannot follow Jesus and sidestep the cross

September 19, 2024
By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

The road of discipleship is the way of the cross. Embracing it is the secret path to holiness — and there is no other.

Question Corner: Are fairies and leprechauns demonic? And what happened to Barabbas?

September 18, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

The church does not have any current official teaching on fairies or leprechauns. However, in traditional folklore, fairies and leprechauns were not the sweet and playful creatures that they tend to be in our modern depictions, and they have an association with pre-Christian European paganism.

Underground railroad

September 18, 2024
By Effie Caldarola
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Racial Justice

Although many Americans were abolitionists, particularly the Quakers, or Friends, it’s scandalous to us now to admit that many Christian churches were complicit in profiteering from slavery, the Catholic Church being no exception.

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