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All that we offer

April 2, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window

When I make beef vegetable soup, I am incapable of making the right amount for our family of four. We always end up with extra. So, after I made a pot of soup this week, I texted my sister to see if she’d like some for her, her husband, and their six children. Treasa wrote […]

Pope St. John Paul II: Witness to the world

April 2, 2025
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints

John Paul was an ecumenical and interreligious innovator.

Question Corner: Can I attend a non-Catholic wedding?

April 2, 2025
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

If a Catholic attends a clearly invalid wedding in the normal festive spirit, they are celebrating something which is, at least objectively “on paper,” a falsehood.

Loving sinners, admonishing sin

April 2, 2025
By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent

If the Cross of Christ shows us anything, it is that loving sinners requires a willingness to suffer.

God really loves me

April 2, 2025
By Archbishop William E. Lori
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Evangelization

This year’s Rite of Election in the Archdiocese of Baltimore was beautiful. The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen was filled to overflowing. Nearly 800 catechumens and candidates for reception into the church were joined by their godparents, sponsors, families and friends.

‘Put no trust in princes’

April 1, 2025
By Greg Erlandson
OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary, DOGE cuts

We as Catholics are asked to assess how Christian or moral an administration is not by its members or its rhetoric, but by its actions.

‘The Chosen’ Season Five sets the table for Holy Week

April 1, 2025
By Sister Nancy Usslemann
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Movie & Television Reviews

While it began as an independent crowd-funded series, “The Chosen” has now become a global phenomenon as the most watched series in the world.

10 reasons to come back to the Catholic Church

March 29, 2025
By Lorene Hanley Duquin
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Evangelization

Most people discover that coming back to the church is not an event as much as it is a process that involves a little pain, a little laughter, some thinking, some prayer, some discernment and a lot of letting go.

God never gives up on us

March 28, 2025
By Archbishop Thomas Wenski
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent

The door to that future is always open for us: it is the door of the confessional where sins committed after baptism are forgiven.

Question Corner: Are there any saints who had a difficult relationship with the church?

March 26, 2025
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Saints

There have been many canonized saints who were treated very badly by church leaders of their day, through no fault of their own.

Princeton’s Robert George reflects on ‘Evangelium Vitae’ 30 years on

March 26, 2025
By Charles C. Camosy
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life

Robert P. George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, recently spoke with OSV News’ Charlie Camosy about how St. John Paul II’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” released 30 years ago, provided a pro-life vision that remains relevant today.

A chocolate cake with white frosting is sliced so you can see the blue frosting inside

A gender reveal party and the Annunciation

March 25, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

As the lunch came to a close, she brought out the gender reveal cake. I have never been to a gender reveal party, but I love any reason to celebrate a new little one.

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