Elizabeth Scalia, OSV News
‘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,...
Finding faith, hope and courage in the Seven Sorrows devotion with...
On March 17, St. Patrick may get all the noisy notice, but just two days later, Catholics celebrate the solemnity of St. Joseph --...
‘Pajama days’ can provide genuine renewal to body, mind and soul...
Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Although I've given up grousing for Lent, I recently found myself complaining to anyone who would listen that life was beginning...
St. Josephine Bakhita, patron saint of survivors of human trafficking, inspires...
When she was canonized by Pope St. John Paul in 2000, Josephine Bakhita immediately became the patron saint of survivors of human trafficking.
Even a...
It’s worth recalling a wry old Jewish maxim: ‘You make plans;...
Like St. Teresa of Avila, I have a skull on my desk. Two, actually -- one plain and one riotously decorated in green and...