A reader asks: “Is it wrong to have a Mass offered for a deceased atheist? Years ago, I said to a friend, “I will keep you in my prayers.” She retorted, “Don’t say that!” She even wrote me a long angry letter
In an analysis for Our Sunday Visitor, Mary FioRito unveils an often-ignored group within the pro-life movement: atheists against abortion. She writes: “For the first time since Gallup began polling on the topic of religion, those who say they belong to a
A reader asks Monsignor Charles Pope: “I hear a lot these days about spiritual warfare. … Given this, should we consider atheists to be the enemy?” Monsignor explains that to label all atheists as enemies is too broad since many people don’t
In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Pauline Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble writes that she “learned more about racism in my time as a punk rock atheist than I ever did as a Catholic.” She writes that, like her, “many young people
In his latest column, OSV publisher Scott P. Richert explains that the mission of all Catholics should be to evangelize to those who have rejected the truth about Jesus Christ, because perhaps all that soul really needs is a Christian who cares