With so much going on, writes Gretchen Crowe, it is almost necessary to stop and take stock of where we are to determine where we should be going. That’s what a panel of influential Catholics ...
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, saying it was “deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity.” Two days later, those of us in the United States ...
Like many Catholics, reading Scripture every day has not come easily to Scott Warden. In his latest column, he gives an update about his family’s practice of listening to Ascension Press’ “The Bible in a ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes that it is time to speak truth with charity instead of thinking in terms of politics. Sharing a quote by Pope St. John Paul Il’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae where he addresses ...
A reader asks, “Why is it that many Catholics single out a raft of sexuality-related or so-called sanctity of life violations as being the only ones that disqualify one from receiving holy Communion?” In his ...
Reflecting on the Second Sunday of Lent, Timothy O’Malley writes: “If we are to celebrate the resurrection on Easter, we must gaze upon Our Lord, see his suffering, and the suffering of our neighbor here ...
Throughout his campaign and even since his inauguration, President Joe Biden has spoken of his desire to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law. In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Russell Shaw writes ...
Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board proposes that there is one group of individuals whose stories we as a Church can and should commit to knowing better: American Black Catholics who are on the road to ...
Our Sunday Visitor publisher Scott Richert writes about three books he is reading simultaneously: Wendell Berry’s “Hannah Coulter,” Walker Percy’s “The Message in the Bottle” and Owen Barfield’s “Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry.” ...
Ava Lalor shares how St. Joseph has always had a presence in her life through the witness of her own dad. While St. Joseph has become a special patron in recent years, Lalor can now ...
