While it is easy for people to love what is good and beautiful or to be generous and heroic for an ideal, Pope Francis said Christian love embraces what is not lovable, it offers forgiveness and blesses one's enemies.
This "greater love," which
St. Isidore was a Spanish day laborer who was born in 1070 and died in 1130. He learned the importance of a life of prayer and growing in the virtues despite lacking formal education and spent his life as a tenant farmer.
Harrison Butker’s commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, has attracted a great deal of attention from the media. But there’s more to the Kansas City Chiefs kicker’s speech than the headlines and soundbites will allow. In particular, he strikes at
Bree Solstad, formerly a top pornographic content creator, recently announced her conversion to Catholicism and her decision to walk away from her previous career.
OSV News interviewed Solstad -- who now designs religious jewelry -- to trace her journey, and to explore her
This is the unlikely story of the connection between Tucker, a humble sculptor from the countryside of Hendricks County, and Father Augustus Tolton, who was born into slavery and overcame the racism of his country and his church to become a boundless
"The time has come for a new Jubilee when once more the Holy Door will be flung open to invite everyone to an intense experience of the love of God that awakens in hearts the sure hope of salvation in Christ," Pope
Columnist Kenneth Craycraft writes about his recent trip to Oxford, England, for his daughter’s wedding and how the title of his column, “Grace Is Everywhere,” was confirmed during the trip: “Over four days of feasting and celebration, I have been confirmed in
The world is in great need of hope and patience, Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience.
Those who are patient "are weavers of goodness. They stubbornly desire peace, and even if others are hasty and would like everything straight away, patience
OSV News editor-in-chief Gretchen Crowe reflects on the nature of gift and on three virtues that help us to give gifts, to receive gifts and to appreciate the gifts given to others. And it is humility that allows us to recognize everything
Elizabeth Scalia addresses today’s social chaos and the need to form consciences: “Very little is really getting through to us, anymore. War, cultural chaos, stupid movies, political corruption, religious scandals gone unaddressed — nothing registers beyond the blink, beyond the blip of