Thinking of Eric today October 10, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window It has been seven years since my brother-in-law Eric died. It doesn’t feel that long, and yet it also feels like longer. Time can be so odd. Today, as we are missing him, I am thinking of how we never really lose the people we love. But I also know that there is an Eric-shaped […]
How to help a grieving friend October 9, 2024By Lorene Hanley Duquin OSV News Filed Under: Commentary There is no magic formula for dealing with a grieving person. The best way to reach out to someone will depend on your relationship with that person and where he or she is in the grieving process.
Question Corner: What are ‘non-sacramental’ marriages? October 9, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner A valid marriage is essentially a marriage where the wedding “worked,” and produced a true bond. In contrast, an attempted marriage where one of these necessary elements was absent would be considered an “invalid” or “null” marriage.
A father’s arms October 9, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church Through their lives and actions, our fathers teach us about love – and especially about God’s love for us.
The battles we fight October 7, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary It’s wise to acknowledge that not every fight can be won; that we may not have the resources to sustain a war on many fronts; that victory sometimes costs us more than we can afford
‘There Are Two’: Pope Gelasius and Jefferson’s ‘Wall of Separation’ October 5, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary We must reject the “wall of separation” as the formula for religious repression that it is.
Analysis: Trump’s proposed mandate aims to fund IVF’s large-scale destruction of human embryos October 5, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary, Respect Life IVF treatments — which fertilize an egg outside the body in a laboratory dish — are opposed by the Catholic Church because they frequently involve the destruction of human embryos, in addition to other ethical and moral issues.
A moderately important election October 5, 2024By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary To argue that we must compromise the church’s moral and social teaching so that we may cast a vote for “the lesser of two evils” is to declare implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) that Christianity is of only moderate importance compared with the electoral politics of the day.
Human dignity and the digital explosion October 4, 2024By Sister Hosea Rupprecht OSV News Filed Under: Commentary What is a person of faith to do before the enormity of AI and all the other digital technologies we have in our hands? Trust in God and make sure to keep the human person at the center for all our digital interactions.
‘Rosary priest’ Father Peyton: ‘The family that prays together stays together’ October 4, 2024By Gerald Korson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, Father Peyton was perhaps the best-known “media priest” this side of Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Sunken treasure October 3, 2024By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary And just as the divers who found the San Jose did not work alone, so too those who are retrieving the faith do not work alone.
Deer in the dusky evening October 3, 2024By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Environment As we look forward to St. Francis of Assisi’s feast day on Oct. 4, may we pray to St. Francis for the freedom of simplicity and a renewed commitment to our mother Earth.
