Msgr. Owen F. Campion is OSV’s chaplain.
“They say” that former first lady Barbara Pierce Bush, who died in mid-April, smoked cigarettes. Well, she reached adulthood when smoking was common, indeed expected. She also represented many values that universally were revered in this country once upon a time, but
They used to say that the Catholic Church is like a family — hard to ignore and even harder to leave. Well, that was then. An abundance of social analyses now shows that the number of Americans who were reared as Catholics,
It was old, but it was fascinating! In a secondhand bookshop, I found a copy of the 1955 Official Catholic Directory. (The Official Catholic Directory has been published yearly for well over a century. It has the names and addresses of all