Elizabeth Scalia, OSV News

Non-Catholic friends are often puzzled by our calendar of memorials and solemnities, particularly the solemnity of the Annunciation -- a moment that usually only...

Non-Catholic friends are often puzzled by our calendar of memorials and solemnities, particularly the solemnity of the Annunciation -- a moment that usually only...

Perhaps fear, after all, is at the root of all sin. I used to think it was selfishness, but it's not. Even selfishness is...

She has become ubiquitous on social media platforms: the middle class woman who is nearly spitting with unsuppressed rage and seemingly gleeful that she...

The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image of Pope Leo XIV consoling a weeping Lebanese...

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor" (Lk 14:8). Okay, can we stipulate...

Several years into young motherhood, I volunteered to prepare parish second graders for their first Communion. The weekly classes with 18 children often felt like...

Thanks to the availability of instantaneous, global communication and our addiction to it, 21st century humans are permitted — perhaps condemned is a better...

Thanks to the availability of instantaneous, global communication and our addiction to it, 21st century humans are permitted — perhaps condemned is a better...

Thanks to the availability of instantaneous, global communication and our addiction to it, 21st century humans are permitted -- perhaps condemned is a better...