Advent truly cannot get here soon enough.
It would be nice to simply ease into the season but most years we have barely finished the T-bird leftovers, restacked the good dishes and developed a ruthless cold or flu thanks to all the love
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free…”
Watching a news report of a group of students chanting the line, Elizabeth wonders if they were even cognizant that their refrain, repeated so full-throatedly and relentlessly, was a call for genocide.
In chapter 31 of her autobiography, the 16th- century Carmelite St. Teresa of Avila -- one of four female doctors of the church, including her spiritual daughter, St. Thérèse of Lisieux -- urges us toward frequent use of one particular, very common
The news of Rupnik's incardination comes just as the first monthlong Synod on Synodality -- the synod that is meant to be all about listening, and about hearing the voices of the entire church -- is winding down and has issued its
“Beauty will save the world,” Dostoyevsky famously wrote in his novel, “The Idiot.” Certainly beauty is a subjective thing, and one can reasonably find it in the most highly decorated space as in the simplistic bareness, when it is true. And in
Parents are all too familiar with the sort of anxiety that can subconsciously nag at you all day long, before really kicking in at night. It is good to call upon the angels in times of worry and uncertainty.
Knowing how to strike a balance between rest and action is a very Catholic thing, for we are a both/and Church, part Mary and part Martha. Jimmy Buffett knew how to recognize when to take action and when to relax and enjoy
Jason Aldean says his song and video "Try That in a Small Town" are not meant as racist dog whistles. Elizabeth Scalia has some thoughts.
Professor George shares some of his thoughts on the unexpected and still-infant candidacy of Cornel West with OSV News' Elizabeth Scalia, who reached out to him wondering whether West's move was simply a clever attempt to force an elevation of debate and
It behooves all of us to be thoughtful in our speech and our writing, and to train our tongues and pens to anticipate the unforgiving down-shouter tendencies of a world that barely hears before it bellows a return