Question Corner: How can I contribute to every charity that asks? March 28, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Rather than demanding a specific percentage of our income, the church leaves the dollar amount of our charitable giving up to our own good-faith discernment of what we can realistically afford.
Praying for healing for our pet March 25, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Every morning when I check the cages, I am relieved to see Ron is still with us, ready for his breakfast, looking forward to the day. I hope he pulls through and that he’s not in pain.
An invitation from God March 23, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window Every year as the Feast of the Annunciation approaches, I think of how our Blessed Mother received the news that she would be the mother of Jesus.
‘Annunciation’: Salvation and the words of the air March 23, 2023By Bishop Robert Reed OSV News Filed Under: Commentary In March, with Christmas now feeling well-behind us, we nevertheless touch it again, for on the 25th of this month we observe the Solemnity of the Annunciation as recorded in the Gospel of St. Luke.
Fully entering into the Triduum March 23, 2023By Bishop Donald J. Hying OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, Lent God leaves the safety and glory of heaven, in a certain sense, and embraces the limitations of our human condition, coming to know in the flesh both the glory and tragedy of our nature without ever having sinned.
Question Corner: Jesus became man so I could become God? March 20, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Even in the heavenly life of the world to come, we retain our human nature.
The mental health crisis crosses all boundaries and ages March 16, 2023By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary We’re all called to love unconditionally, to be the Prodigal’s father welcoming with open arms, to open our doors to a wider perimeter.
Hold the tuna casserole; pass the crab cake this Lent March 15, 2023By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent In the Land of Pleasant Living, we are blessed with many pleasant meatless options.
Question Corner: Do we relax our Lenten fasts on Sunday? March 14, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner The time of Lent is not meant so much to provide us with a literal 40 forty days of penance, but rather to recall Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the desert.
Pope Francis: 10 titles for 10 years March 14, 2023By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Before he was known for anything else, Pope Francis was known as “the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years.”
Let’s make another St. Patrick’s Day Parade memory March 12, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window For as long as I can remember, the Baltimore St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been part of my world.
Question Corner: Weekly Friday sacrifices: You mean they never went away? March 9, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner Our obligation to do some form of penance on Friday is identified in Canon 1250 in the Code of Canon Law, which tells us that “The penitential days and times in the universal church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.”
