Elizabeth Scalia, OSV News
Permit ourselves to dream, and believe in God’s promises — Elizabeth...
In this season, we spend a lot of time congratulating others on their graduations, or their upcoming jobs or their new marriages. That's all...
‘Magnifica Humanitas’: A lengthy, worthwhile feast of a message needing measured...
Coming in at 42,000 words, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," is massive. It's huge. It is clear-eyed and comprehensive and so chock-full...
Rather than over-familiar lines running past, writing the Gospel by longhand...
Because my Lent took a nosedive about two-thirds of the way through, I am still immersed in a project I undertook in order to...
Why the church celebrates the Annunciation: ‘God created us without us,...
Non-Catholic friends are often puzzled by our calendar of memorials and solemnities, particularly the solemnity of the Annunciation -- a moment that usually only...
In Mary’s fiat, we actively cooperate with God to co-create an...
Non-Catholic friends are often puzzled by our calendar of memorials and solemnities, particularly the solemnity of the Annunciation -- a moment that usually only...
Let us place all our fears into the vast depths...
Perhaps fear, after all, is at the root of all sin. I used to think it was selfishness, but it's not. Even selfishness is...
How do we heal a world so terribly in need of...
She has become ubiquitous on social media platforms: the middle class woman who is nearly spitting with unsuppressed rage and seemingly gleeful that she...
In no rush to fulfill predictions of his priorities, Pope Leo...
The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image of Pope Leo XIV consoling a weeping Lebanese...
Pope Leo follows Francis in assuring there is a seat at...
"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...
Kids need to see parents praying, the first and most important...
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...