Angels and ecumenism March 19, 2024By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations If you’re of an older generation, you may remember being taught that no one got to heaven outside the Catholic Church. Fortunately, the Second Vatican Council helped us get over this narrow approach to God’s mercy.
‘Bread from heaven’ shows the goodness of creation March 18, 2024By Carl E. Olson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist To say the Eucharist cannot be Jesus Christ is a denial of several things: the words of Christ, as we hear in today’s Gospel; the tradition of the church; the power of God to become man; and the goodness of the created world itself.
Cardinal Shehan to the rescue March 18, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Open Window “I think he realized I was troubled as a father. You have to fight for your children,” Don said. “He said, ‘I’m glad you came to me.’ What a fine example of what God calls us to do. He truly was a man of God.”
Question Corner: Does the Polish National Catholic Church have a valid celebration of the Eucharist? March 13, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner In our lives as Catholics, we are not only obligated and privileged to partake in the Eucharist, but we are also called to maintain communion with the body of Christ, which is the church, which is united visibly under the teaching authority of the Holy Father in Rome.
Embrace the eucharistic dynamic: change the world March 11, 2024By David Spesia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist Jesus wants to transform all those relationships and situations which cause us pain, and he waits for us to invite him into this redemptive work.
Little lost dog March 11, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church Like Veronica, who wipes Jesus’ face on the way to Calvary, and Simon of Cyrene who helps Jesus carry his cross, people we might not even know – or know well – are ready to walk beside us and lighten our load.
Looking at the Oscar nominees for best picture through the lens of human dignity March 8, 2024By Sister Hosea Rupprecht OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Movie & Television Reviews With the Academy Awards right around the corner, here’s my take on how the 10 nominations for best picture hold up in the human dignity department.
In praise of singing March 7, 2024By Laura Kelly Fanucci other Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Commentary It’s a foretaste of heaven to look around Mass and witness the full participation of the people of God.
Two who didn’t run March 7, 2024By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Both Stanley Rother and Alexei Navalny exemplified the cardinal virtue of courage, which is also a gift of the Holy Spirit.
Question Corner: For those who avoid meat anyway, is there another Lenten Friday penance? March 7, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner if you personally feel that Friday abstinence during Lent is not enough of a sacrifice to be spiritually beneficial for you, you are certainly free to incorporate another penitential practice in addition to abstinence on Fridays.
Mission by mail March 6, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary God can and does use anything and everything to reach us, to communicate his love, to connect us to one another. It seems that a mission to spread the joy of the Gospel can be conducted by mail.
Politicization of migration policy is causing a migrant standstill March 6, 2024By Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration There are two major policy goals needed at this time. We need not only better border management, but also the distinctive compassion of past immigration policies, such as family reunification and attention to our labor needs and to immigrant workers.
