Elizabeth Scalia, OSV News
It’s nearly impossible to feel bitter toward someone when you’re praying...
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...
Deep prayer in the deep end of the pool for friends,...
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...
‘Ted Lasso’ leaves us pondering the Gospels, whether it’s Jason Sudeikis...
Parting truly is "such sweet sorrow," and in this era of anti-heroes, deep irony and unsympathetic characters, I miss "Ted Lasso." Having found a...
‘The mosquitoes are special:’ Summer pests remind us to meditate on...
July is one of those months. The heat of summer sets in and elderly uncles come to visit and delight in declaring – with...
Pride month is over; be careful what you wish for —...
As his sixth birthday approached, my younger son made a big noise about it.
His anticipation was so great that he got jolly a week...
Father Marko Rupnik, accused of sexual abuse, dismissed from Jesuits —...
The Society of Jesus has dismissed Father Marko Rupnik from the order. According to Father Johan Verschueren, his superior in Rome, Father Rupnik was...
‘The Pursuit of the Pilfered Cheese’ is a gifted mom’s wish...
What could possibly bring G. K. Chesterton, a religious order of female mice and a prize wheel of cheese together? Perhaps just some human...
Dealing with a struggle can be difficult enough without social madness...
Recently I found an essay I had written 'way back in 2013, where I'd wondered whether there was room in Catholic pews for a...
Book review: Is ‘Ashes’ the literary novel some Catholics have been...
Anthony Mancini, “Ashes”
Tolmitch Press, 2023
278 pages $16.00
“To love, it is the most creative and godlike act of all.”
In Anthony Mancini's “Ashes,” the line is...
Approaching 10 years: Francis has shown to be the pope of...
Before he was known for anything else, Pope Francis was known as "the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years."
Over the last 10 years,...