Essay
The often silent and surprising history of devotion to Saint Joseph
As we celebrate this official Year of St. Joseph, announced on December 8, 2020 by Pope Francis, Catholics readily join in paying tribute to a [...]
The often silent and surprising history of devotion to Saint Joseph
Essay
As we celebrate this official Year of St. Joseph, announced on December 8, 2020 by Pope Francis, Catholics readily join in paying tribute to a great and well-loved saint. Surely Our Lord’s foster-father has always [...]
Opinion: It’s time to get beyond vaccines
Features
So far, all the COVID-19 vaccines depend on the use of fetal cell lines that originated with abortion. Lots of discussion about the morality of vaccines followed Moderna’s announcement last November that its phase III [...]
Essay
God’s Law of Love: A Spirituality of the Ten Commandments (Part 2)
The First Tablet of the Law The first three commandments, the focus of our reflections in this installment, combine to spell out how to love God with “all your heart, with all your soul, and [...]
Features
Not Forgotten aims to encourage readers in leading a worthy life
For a society aptly described by Pope St. John Paul II as the “Culture of Death”, most of us are not very comfortable facing mortality. However, as the old saying goes, death is one of [...]
Features
The deep and dangerous falsehoods found in the Equality Act
The French Revolution began in 1789 inspired by the noble ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, and in the first months of revolutionary fervor many old injustices were redressed, including not a few caused or [...]
Essay
How should we think about Vatican II?
Editor’s note: The following essay was originally delivered on January 8, 2021, as the Convocation for Spring 2021 Semester at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota. ——- Introduction There is an old story [...]
Books
New book highlights inspiring, challenging stories of six Black Catholics
Michael R. Heinlein is editor of Our Sunday Visitor’s Simply Catholic and author of several OSV booklets and pamphlets. He is also author of a forthcoming children’s book series on theology and a forthcoming biography [...]
Books
Finding the path to renewal in the Church: An interview with Brandon McGinley
Brandon McGinley has written a book, The Prodigal Church (Sophia Institute Press, 2020), which analyzes what has happened within and to the Catholic Church in recent decades, and how the Church can best respond to [...]
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Modern urban life has detached most people in the developed world from a visceral experience of the rhythms of nature. Snowstorms such as much of the country has recently experienced represent one of the few [...] -
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Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), made the following remark as part of a longer statement about the violence in the United States Capitol: “I [...] -
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Tonkawa Bill:
no LETTER WRITTEN ON THE THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS BY ONE OF THE GREATEST SAINTS OF OUR TIME- PADRE PIO.…
soljerblue:
Barnes & Noble apparently isn't caving to the flaming fools on the left -- at last glance, Dr. Seuss was…
Mine G:
Joseph, it appears to me that conspiracy theories will continue to flourish no matter what the Pope Emeritus or Pope…
