The top 10 Catholic cities to visit in America June 10, 2024By Marion Amberg OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Take to the highways and the byways this summer and visit the wonderful monuments, marvels and miracles of America’s Catholic faith!. It’ll rev up your faith and be a road trip you won’t soon forget.
The joy of finding the missing cheese June 8, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window When we lose something—or think we’ve lost it—we treasure it that much more.
Immigration decision: legalization or deportation, the choice before us June 7, 2024By Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration There is a choice before the American public and its leaders in how to resolve the immigration situation. Our national conscience and heritage are at stake.
A refuge for parents? Find it deep within the Sacred Heart June 6, 2024By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life The Sacred Heart is rather like the Cabinet of Curiosity featured in several of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books — a mysterious structure no one fully understands yet everyone instinctively knows is vital to the proper functioning of, well, all things.
Summer media survival tips for parents June 5, 2024By Sister Hosea Rupprecht OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Youth Ministry In our technology-obsessed world, it’s a challenge for adults to find a good balance between tech-based activities and other stuff. It’s even more difficult for kids whose devices seem to be grafted onto their arms.
Question Corner: What is church teaching on yoga and reiki? June 5, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Health Care, Question Corner Catholics should not practice or receive reiki, because it would be inappropriate, if not spiritually dangerous, for a Catholic to seek out purely supernatural healing apart from Christian prayer or the sacraments.
Simone Weil on obligations, rights and the need for roots after 75 years June 5, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary This theory of individual rights is not merely incompatible with the Christian doctrines of solidarity and common good, but contradictory to them.
Building the team June 3, 2024By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, From the Archbishop, Seek the City to Come Sustainable parishes are being formed that will have what it takes to offer a full range of pastoral services and to evangelize the neighborhoods they are in, while continuing ministries of service.
Pope Francis’ CBS interview is surprisingly and refreshingly clear June 2, 2024By Gretchen R. Crowe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Stressing openness and mercy, Francis’ emphasis has been on welcoming everyone into the church, and if a mess is made along the way, so be it.
Get to know 10 American minor basilicas June 1, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Of the approximately 1,800 minor basilicas in the world, the United States is home to 93, most recently the Basilica of St. Andrew in Roanoke, Va., which received its designation in September 2023.
Want revival? The Sacred Heart shows us what it takes June 1, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist To sustain authentic spiritual revival, our hearts must be like Christ’s.
Celebrating the class of 2024 May 30, 2024By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus I am going to be more than a little interested to see how the graduating class of 2024 turns out, but in my mind, theirs may be our Resilient Generation.
