Given the long history of the Church, Monsignor Owen Campion writes the feast of Christ the King is rather recent, instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925. Pope Pius created this feast to remind Catholics ...
The recent report that a priest in the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina, refused holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden brought to center stage, once again, the question of how the Church should ...
As the synod of bishops on the Amazon discussed ordaining married men as priests, OSV chaplain Monsignor Owen Campion looks at the history behind a celibate priesthood, noting that it stems from Jesus himself saying ...
In his latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, Monsignor Owen Campion looks at the origins of Halloween and All Saints Day, reminding readers that while darkness and evil of the world reign on All Hallows ...
In a few days, Cardinal John Henry Newman will be canonized as a saint, and Britain’s Prince Charles is scheduled to attend. The prince’s presence has been reported as if it will be a major ...
Some studies suggest that before long the Catholic population of sub-Saharan Africa will account for as many as 40% of Catholics worldwide. Pope Francis’ journey to the three African nations indicates how important Africa has ...
Thorough transformation in American seminaries has improved priestly formation
No one should be surprised. Mississippi’s two Catholic bishops, Joseph R. Kopacz of Jackson and Louis F. Kihneman III of Biloxi have joined the state’s Episcopal, Lutheran and United Methodist leaders in condemning recent actions ...
The Catholic Church rejects the death penalty because it promotes the culture of death
We Americans are obsessed and tunnel-visioned. Look at the newsstand in any supermarket or drugstore. I guarantee that many magazines will feature stories about the British royal family. It is easy to assume that Britain ...
