“What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun!” Thus says the Book of Ecclesiastes, a sentiment that may well summarize much that has happened in 2023. Old wars continued; new
Economic uncertainty, a war in Eastern Europe, continued domestic political polarization … this past year was marked in many ways by events that have been widely destabilizing and disruptive. But through it all, men and women of great faith have been beacons
A year ago, as we flipped the calendar from 2020 to 2021, we thought that the worst was behind us. With new vaccinations, we thought we would beat back the COVID-19 pandemic. But the virus killed more people in 2021 than it
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus a global pandemic, and since then, the world — and the Church — has been turned upside down, as more than 1.5 million people have died from
Every year, Our Sunday Visitor profiles the Catholics who have made the biggest impact in the life of the Church over the course of the previous year. And while 2018 has seen many painful stories of people’s misdeeds emerge through revelations about