Elizabeth Scalia, OSV News

St. Philip Neri once had a penitent confess to indulging in gossip. He advised the contrite soul to bring him a chicken, and to...

There are some news articles one consumes with the same reluctance as one accepts a repellent medical treatment. "A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed...

"Life's full of tough choices, innit?" The question oozes out of Ursula the Sea Witch like a plume of playfully poisonous vapor as she interrupts...

"Eros is … that force which 'does not allow the lover to remain in himself but moves him to become one with the beloved.'...

You have no idea how many of my columns have begun as a germ of a thought -- usually an annoyed question -- scribbled...

"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free…" Watching a news report of a group of students chanting the line, I wondered if...

Since Oct. 7, I have been trying to understand something incomprehensible. There is a lot that has happened since that bloody date that is incomprehensible,...

Parents are all too familiar with the sort of anxiety that can subconsciously nag at you all day long, before really kicking in at...

Too often lately, it feels like the offices from which we’ve historically taken our cues -- our political and community leadership, the punditry, local...

For love of the house of the Lord I will ask for your good. — Ps 122:9 Sometimes Jesus’ words are so familiar to us we...