One of the saddest things for a Catholic is when a friend abandons the Faith because of suffering. We might think they have given up without a fight, and our first instinct may be to rush in and let them know how
At the beginning of Catholic Schools Week, Peter Kilpatrick, president of The Catholic University of America, notes that it is fitting that the week includes the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of Catholic education. And with his feast day,
KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) -- She dedicated her life and career to fight for marriages and unborn children -- a battle she would pursue with and for Karol Wojtyla. He signed letters to her as "Brother." She would talk to him daily
Newspapers love to run stories about celebrities being weird or self-destructive, because celebrity-obsessed Americans gobble them up. People reading them naturally ask why celebrities “spin off into eccentricity and madness,” actor-director-novelist Ethan Hawke wrote a few years ago: “Celebrity is a form
What does “The Godfather” have to do with friendship and justice? Kenneth Craycraft unpacks it in his latest column: “One of my holiday rituals is to re-watch my favorite movie, ‘The Godfather.’ While the film is not an exact fit in the
In her latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, Pauline Sister Nancy Usselmann explores three ways in which each of us can gauge whether our relationships are authentic and built on love and mutual respect: “True friendship leads us to be better because
In his latest column, managing editor Scott Warden explores the concerning statistics regarding friendships among adults and teens. He writes: “Recent studies have shown that Americans today are suffering from a drastic lack of friendship as compared to their peers from a
In the latest installment of his series “Letters to a Young Catholic,” professor and writer Leonard DeLorenzo turns his focus to the subject of friendships — namely, how to sustain these relationships when they often seem so fleeting at various times in
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about her 25th class reunion and how the shared bonds of those formative years are recalled and build courage through these get-togethers. She writes, “We’ve lived so much — and separately — and what a blessing to come
When I moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, to start my job at Our Sunday Visitor, I was truly taking a leap of faith. It wasn’t the job that made me nervous; it was the big unknown: How would I find a community?