Elizabeth Scalia, OSV News
My ‘Catholic Wish List’ for this past year shows signs of...
So, at the end of 2023, I published my "Catholic Wish List" for 2024, laying out some hopes for the church that seemed, if...
Pride, self-satisfaction and the lies that serve both are still our...
"After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree, the Lord God called to the man and asked him, 'Where are you?' He answered,...
Gather around the family table, be thankful, and for goodness sake...
Beyond my usual list of things to be grateful for -- mercy, family, reasonable health, employment, the elders still among us and the children...
Supernaturalism: Even those who claim no faith testify to the unseen...
The supernatural is real.
We all know it. We all know that there are "things visible and invisible," and we've all experienced moments where the...
Art cannot be more important than the needs of credible victims...
Having nothing in particular against the Latin Mass, and no real opinion on the Norvus Ordo (beyond believing it could be vastly improved with...
Prayer need not be lengthy, it only needs to be practiced...
There is a saying, dubiously attributed to St. Francis de Sales but it sounds more like Venerable Fulton Sheen to me: "Every one of...
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is the source of all consolation...
As summer approaches it is good to recall that the church dedicates the entire month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, recognizing...
If we stop blaming one another, we could see unity despite...
Let's tally it up:
May 11: A football player gives a commencement address at a Catholic college and his inexpert pronouncements on several hot topics...
‘See something, say something’ is a better risk than silence —...
Touching on an incident where a priest hearing confessions was pepper-sprayed, a recent article from OSV News looked at how clergy and layfolk might...
Mercy is instructive, prayer immersive: Confronting reality in the face of...
St. Philip Neri once had a penitent confess to indulging in gossip. He advised the contrite soul to bring him a chicken, and to...