Car-buying advice from my father June 21, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window The other day John and I went car shopping to replace our minivan. We went to a couple of dealerships to look around. At the second one, we decided to buy a car. Purchasing an automobile is not my favorite thing to do—and I know I’m not alone. Many people do not enjoy car shopping. […]
Question Corner: How can Father Rupnik remain a priest after dismissal from Jesuits? June 21, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Religious life is a call to follow Christ more closely by living a vowed life in community according to the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Latinity and sanctity: Remembering Bishop Victor Galeone June 21, 2023By George Weigel Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference Brilliance and humility met in Victor Galeone and were fused by hours of daily prayer that left callouses on his knees.
The recipe for going ‘all in’ on ending homelessness in America June 20, 2023By Jeff Olivet and Sister Donna Markham OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Social Justice While the affordable housing shortage can be hard to see with our own eyes, homelessness is not.
‘The winner is you’ June 16, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church The whole grocery store trip is a different experience when I remind myself how blessed we are to have all we have – and even what a gift the time in the store can be itself.
Shopping and a lesson in trust June 14, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I’ve been looking for a new shirt or two, but the styles I’m finding are so unappealing. I don’t need a shirt with a zipper or things dangling off of it. It doesn’t need to have puffy sleeves or have a longer tail in the back. But I also don’t want it to be boring. […]
Question Corner: Can an “ecumenical Catholic service” satisfy our Sunday obligation? June 14, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner The short answer to your question is that anything other than a normal Catholic Mass would not fulfill one’s Sunday obligation.
‘Ted Lasso’ and ‘Succession’: What makes a good dad? June 13, 2023By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Movie & Television Reviews If “Succession” is a close examination of humanity gone bad, “Ted Lasso” is refreshingly aspirational.
A First Communion, the school year ending, and a happy potato (7 Quick Takes) June 10, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window ~1~ Two of our nieces made their First Communions this spring—one in New England and one here in Baltimore. We missed the one in New England, but I managed to get to the Mass in Baltimore where our niece received Jesus in the Eucharist for the first time. It was wonderful to be with her […]
Alternatives to perilous migration journeys from Latin America June 8, 2023By Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration A long-term and sustainable structural response is badly needed to manage migration in our hemisphere.
Question Corner: Is incorrupt Sister Wilhelmina possibly a saint? June 6, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints In the canonization process, the state of the person’s mortal remains is of minimal relevance.
The day a tractor-trailer hit my van June 4, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window, Uncategorized The driver had been driving a tractor-trailer. He was trying to turn into a parking lot across the street to make a delivery when the flatbed ripped into the side of our van.
