On the sixth anniversary of his sister’s death, columnist David Mills revisits the feeling of loss. “It’s weird how that day, that very bad day, seems to be a long time ago and just yesterday, because I've adjusted to a world without
OSV columnist David Mills looks closely at a friendship that had dissolved, writing: “I spend some time at every Mass thanking God for my friends, bringing to mind a picture of each one as I pray for them, partly as a way
David Mills asks Catholics a strange but imperative question: Why is it important to think with the mind of a murderer? The answer, Mills writes, lies in the example of two priests — “one real and one fictional” — who have a
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, columnist David Mills looks at the too-common belief that God doesn’t lose battles — or let us lose them. While that might sound comforting to those engaged in a difficult moment, Mills writes: “It
Columnist David Mills explores the reality of false convictions from a Catholic perspective, writing that it’s something the Church warns about in its social teaching: “False conviction is a problem for Christians in two ways. First, our neighbors suffer this injustice, and
Our Sunday Visitor columnist David Mills reacts to a recent Facebook post in which someone mentioned following all of the Church’s teachings. Mills explores what that means — and even if it’s possible. “The Church teaches a lot of things, some of
In his latest essay for Our Sunday Visitor, columnist David Mills reacts to a recent call to stop the exodus from the Church of England by turning it into “a social institution with a spiritual side” — in other words, making religion
Columnist David Mills tells the story of St. Thomas Aquinas becoming upset with having to stop his important, theological work to travel to meet the king of France — the future St. Louis: “St. Thomas (in G.K. Chesterton’s telling) gives us an
Writer David Mills explores our society’s fascination with celebrity culture and the choices we make to try to model our own behavior after that of the rich and famous: “The problem isn’t just that admiring celebrities means admiring images created by people
Columnist David Mills looks at the story of Peter Maurin, who co-founded the Catholic Worker movement with Dorothy Day. As he grew older, Mills writes, “his mind was going. He was a month short of 70. In the middle of Lent, he'd