In his latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, Monsignor Owen Campion reflects on the tragic nature of the coronavirus pandemic and how it has forced us to think about our own mortality, but also has forced us to think about our priorities
In his latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, Monsignor Owen Campion writes that throughout history, wars and pandemics have come, but as human beings, we have no control over much of what occurs in human life. But as human beings, we are
In his latest column, Monsignor Owen Campion tells the story of the Daughters of Charity, who staffed a hospital in New Orleans for patients diagnosed with Hansen’s disease — or leprosy, as it’s commonly known — after nobody else was willing to
The culture has gone haywire when it comes to sex and sexuality, in the process utterly discarding not only customs valued for millennia, but the once, and not that long ago, moral traditions of Western religion. While sexual abuse has been public
In his latest column, Monsignor Owen Campion writes that while the new homeless shelter established by Pope Francis at the Vatican has made headlines recently, the Church has a long history of caring for those who do not have the means to
Monsignor Owen F. Campion recalls his education in Nashville at Father Ryan High School, which was the first school in the former Confederacy to drop the racial segregation restriction that was mandated by law in the South. He writes that there was
Monsignor Owen Campion writes that, while not Catholic, President Andrew Johnson should have a place in Catholic history books. When Catholics in this country needed a friend in high places, Andrew Johnson was there, forthright, unwavering and bold, risking political disadvantage for
In his column this week, Monsignor Owen Campion writes that, after all the justified appeals for kindness toward others, and realizing that the civil laws in this country and in many other countries now see same-gender marriage as a “right,” the Catholic
Monsignor Owen Campion writes that when slavery was legal in the United States, many Americans — possibly most Americans — accepted it, and, sadly, the Church rolled with the tide, as too few Church leaders denounced the evils of slavery. What can
Monsignor Campion reacts to a recent poll that says the number of Catholics who regularly attend Mass continues to decline. He writes that he hopes the realities exposed by this poll will summon Catholic parents to do something, to take the lead