Why do we give gifts at Christmas? Monsignor Owen Campion writes that it is because each of us is a child of God, redeemed by the Son of God. Each person, therefore, is special. We ...
A reader asks Monsignor Charles Pope if John the Baptist recognized that Jesus was the Messiah. There are different views on how to understand this. One view holds that John is not confused at all ...
The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board writes: “Our frenzied, black-and-cyber consumerism of the season formerly known as Advent draws us away from our preparation for the coming of Christ at Christmas — and, even more ...
Each Advent, we hear reflections that remind us to make more room in our hearts for God. But do we have room for him in our homes and families? Online you'll find six suggestions by ...
Gretchen R. Crowe reminds us in this week’s No Greater Joy column, that celebrating and sharing the Good News, both in our Church and in Scripture, reminds us of the joy ever-present in our Church. ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez explores gratitude in her column Taking Note this week. On tour for the National Review, she is speaking about gratitude for fellow conservative members of the National Review Institute. She notes how ...
Most of us do not live with life altering physical disabilities like blindness and deafness. But we often can be blind and deaf to the will of God. Assistant editor Ava Lalor writes that on ...
A reader asks, what is a good definition of gossip? Monsignor Charles Pope answers that there are multiple different types of gossip: reviling, backbiting, calumny, detraction, tale-bearing (also called “whispering”), derision and cursing. All these ...
In the Opening the Word for the Second Sunday of Advent, Timothy O’Malley writes that the voice of John the Baptist still cries out to us. We hear it in the Scriptures, as we stand ...
In a recent dialogue with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, Father James Martin said that he is trying to “encourage Catholics to see LGBTQ people as more than just sexual beings, to see them ...
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