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.
Looking for signs and Nineveh March 5, 2024By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary It takes spiritual maturity to become the sign rather than, like a hopeful child, demanding one.
Home-court advantage March 4, 2024By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Feature To come home to ourselves, we need silence. We need to pray in secret. We need to be open, welcoming to God who wants to dwell in us. We need to trust that he knows us best, loves us most and gives us what we need.
A Balloon at Mass March 3, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window As we turned to leave Mass, I saw that a little boy in the back had snagged a balloon.
Gratitude at the grocery store March 1, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window A few months ago, I noticed that our grocery store no longer had hand-held shopping baskets. If you wanted to shop, you had to use one of the large rolling grocery carts.
Listen, for heaven’s sake! March 1, 2024By Bishop Robert Reed OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent To listen to Christ is not merely to obey, but to hear deeply, in the place where daily conversion can occur. In this declared “Year of Prayer,” it is not too much to consider that listening is very much a part of the act of prayer.
