St. Angela of Foligno said that prayer is the “School of Divine Love,” the place where we learn how to love God. It is here that our loving — or at least our best attempts ...
Gretchen Crowe shares her family’s love for maps and how that relates to the Lenten season. She writes: “I started to reflect on the reasons for my own interest in cartography. I like the big ...
This year, World Marriage Day, observed annually on the second Sunday of February, will be celebrated Feb. 14, which also is the feast of St. Valentine and which since the eighth century has been a ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez explains that in this age of darkness, loving more and better is critical. She writes, “Loving at every opportunity is the only way to a civilization of love.” She spoke of a ...
A reader asks: How can you love someone you don’t know or someone you hate? Monsignor Charles Pope explains that “to love is to will or want the good of the other. This does not ...
Dr. Greg Popcak writes that “every Christian is called to be pastoral. Not just pastors and professional ministers, but Christian parents, politicians and anyone attempting to use their gifts to build the kingdom of God. ...
Sister Josephine Garrett, a Sister of the Holy Family of Nazareth, grew up in a multicultural environment in Texas. Although she was Baptist, she had graduated from a Catholic university and sang in a Latin ...
While Jesus’s earthly life unfolded in time in a particular place and culture, his saving mission was universal. At the heart of Jesus’ preaching was the coming of God’s kingdom on earth with the divine ...
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan has been without a Catholic high school since Holy Name High School in Escanaba closed in 1971. Fifty years later, however, the school has plans to reopen, starting with a ...
What is true unity? This is a question the Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board has been thinking a lot about. Unity means togetherness, oneness and harmony. It implies a sense of shared purpose and goals. ...