In the wake of the August study by the Pew Research Center that says about two-thirds of Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence, most proposals to address this problem have focused on education. But the problem is more than an
Publisher Scott P. Richert writes: “The reality is that many of those who have vanished from our pews over the past year had been only physically present for some years before that. As social pressure from friends and co-workers and family began
In his latest column, OSV publisher Scott P. Richert explains that the mission of all Catholics should be to evangelize to those who have rejected the truth about Jesus Christ, because perhaps all that soul really needs is a Christian who cares
Scott P. Richert writes in his All Things New column this week that from a young age, he was fascinated by the interplay of darkness and light. Growing up in a small village in west Michigan, without the light pollution of an
In their relationship to the men and women in the pews, we find a common bond between Blessed Solanus and Saint John Henry. Father Solanus counseled tens of thousands of people on their day-to-day struggles in the course of his vocation as
Scott Richert attended a conference in mid-September honoring of the life and legacy of Wendell Berry, the farmer, poet, novelist and essayist. The entire body of his intellectual work has been inspired and informed by his place on earth and the people
Parents must pray that their children embrace and persevere in the gift of faith received at baptism
Gift of faith allows us to experience the depths of reality that go beyond what we can see
I recently finished reading Walker Percy’s second novel, “The Last Gentleman.” I don’t remember having read it before, though the copy that I’ve owned since college some 30 years ago has marks in the margin that I recognize as mine.
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the problem of the “nones” — the rise of the unaffiliated millennials — who have left religion behind (assuming they ever were religious in the first place). The phenomenon spread to the