Msgr. Owen F. Campion is OSV’s chaplain.
No one should be surprised. Mississippi’s two Catholic bishops, Joseph R. Kopacz of Jackson and Louis F. Kihneman III of Biloxi have joined the state’s Episcopal, Lutheran and United Methodist leaders in condemning recent actions by federal authorities in the mass arrest
The Catholic Church rejects the death penalty because it promotes the culture of death
We Americans are obsessed and tunnel-visioned. Look at the newsstand in any supermarket or drugstore. I guarantee that many magazines will feature stories about the British royal family. It is easy to assume that Britain is the only hereditary monarchy left on
If American Catholics want to see abortion illegal, they must be consistent in their view of all human life.
In early June, the top leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention — the second-largest religious body in the United States after Catholics — met in Birmingham, Alabama, to consider sex abuse of youth by leaders in the denomination’s network of churches. The
I feel good. In the last several weeks I have attended two ceremonies in which young men were ordained priests. In my home diocese of Nashville, Tennessee, I saw five fine candidates receive Holy Orders and become priests, and a week later
You never know who will come to your door on seemingly-normal weekend morning. Recently one Saturday, my doorbell rang, and I answered. Two very polite, well-dressed young men introduced themselves as evangelical missionaries. They asked if they could speak with me. I
In his column this week, Monsignor Campion looks at the history of the Titanic, and of the priests that lost their lives as they ministered to the people aboard, most immigrants in third class, who lost their lives. The courage of the
In his column this week, Monsignor Campion writes, As we stagger amid reports of scandal in the Church today, as violence terrorizes us on a regular basis, as religion and morality are insulted and great numbers abandon the Church, remember what Christianity
It is a sign of what is happening. Another new Catholic church in the Atlanta archdiocese has opened, Mary Our Queen. It features artifacts and other items from St. Gerard's Church in Buffalo, New York, which has closed.