Elizabeth Scalia, OSV News

"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...

On Sept. 10, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot and killed during a speaking event in Utah. He leaves behind a wife and...

Is there a solution to the strife in the Middle East? Can there ever be a meaningful reconciliation between Israel and the people of...

Utterly life-changing was the day I learned that the Hebrew word most frequently used for “sin” (hhatah) is understood by scholars to mean “missing...

"I swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell." -- Laura Nyro, "And When I Die." There is an oft-asserted notion...

Before he was known for anything else, Pope Francis was known as "the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years." As we absorb the news...