Effie Caldarola, OSV News

Walking around my neighborhood this fall, I saw many skeletons. Bones seemed to protrude from every lawn. One evening, taking a walk in the encroaching...

The internet can be wonderful. Until it's not. How we use it matters. This morning, I'm dog-sitting my daughter's rescue dog, Gus, who has separation...

There's a well-known story about the time a journalist asked St. John XXIII an innocent question. "How many people work at the Vatican?" queried...

Is laughter good medicine? Maybe, but it's rare that we hear about the laughter of a saint. In our current historical moment, I think...

Four-year-old Alice is brushing her teeth before bed. Mom and Dad went out for the night, and big sister is at a friend's house. So,...

He was an energetic farm boy from rural Wisconsin, walking daily to a one-room country schoolhouse where a single teacher taught all eight grades. Later,...

My first job out of college was teaching at a Catholic school in a small town. I was at that point in life -- barely...

How do you lose a casket? My friend hasn't figured that out, but eventually, as Julian of Norwich assures us, all was well. We lived in...

He gazes from his portrait with steely determination, one eyebrow raised. I look at the picture of my great-grandfather, an exile from the Irish famine,...

My 3-year-old granddaughter was on a beach weekend. When the ice cream wagon made its trek across the sand, her parents allowed her a...