Nearly five months ago, on May 5, 2023, the World Health Organization declared an end to the global COVID health emergency. After three long years, the government no longer considered us to be living in a pandemic. Despite the hardships and the
For almost two years, the Church has been actively engaged in a process of listening and discernment. Maybe you participated in synod conversations at your parish, maybe you didn’t. Maybe you chatted about topics with friends or colleagues, maybe you didn’t. But
It was 10:30 at night when the beeping started in their hotel room, as Gretchen Crowe writes. Her littles were all sound asleep and their room was, naturally, on the 32nd of 33 floors. Only the restaurant with a view and the
As of this writing, 99 people are dead from the wildfires on Maui that tore through parts of the island beginning August 9, writes Gretchen Crowe. Hundreds more are missing. The scene is one of complete devastation — homes turned into piles
Columnist Gretchen Crowe shares a secret: She dreads the Fourth of July every summer: “Not because I hate America or hot dogs or independence or even the fireworks that threaten to wake up my darling sleeping kids (though that last one kind
It’s been a summer of saints for Gretchen Crowe and her little family. She writes: “By sheer coincidence, thanks to professional and social schedules, during the month of June alone, we got to visit the shrines of five American saints: in Philadelphia,
In her latest column, OSV News editor-in-chief Gretchen R. Crowe recalls a time when she committed to a regular early morning Holy Hour and how that “yes” to God changed her life. As we continue on in the National Eucharistic Revival, Pope
On May 28, Gretchen Crowe writes, she and her husband officially became Pauline Cooperators — the lay association of the Pauline family, founded by Blessed James Alberione: “It’s a major commitment, and we spent nearly two years in formation preparing for it.
“When I was about 12 weeks pregnant with my first baby back in 2016, I cried in my husband’s arms, knowing that my lifelong desire of being a stay-at-home mom with kids was not in God’s plan for our lives,” writes Gretchen
What does conversational intelligence, Pope Francis and media have in common? Gretchen Crowe reflects on the interconnectedness of these three things in her latest column. Commenting on Pope Francis’ message for World Day of Social Communications, celebrated this year on May 21,