For children growing up in an active Catholic family, the secular culture seems odd. They ask about friends and family: why don’t they believe what I believe? Why don’t they go to Church on Sundays? Why don’t they believe in God? Why
In 1739, Charles Wesley published the text of “Hymn for Christmas-Day” in “Hymns and Sacred Poems.” This hymn was one of over 6,500 hymns Wesley would compose during his lifetime as a leader of the Methodist movement in England. “Hymn for Christmas-Day”
The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board addresses a topic that has been on many people’s minds this Advent season: the recent oral hearing of “Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” which may lead to the reversal of “Roe v. Wade.” Yet, as
A reader asks: “If there were no original sin, would Christ still have come to save us? And if so, why did the Lord wait so long to come?” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope dives into St. Thomas Aquinas’s answers
OSV publisher Scott P. Richert examines the question the scribes and the Pharisees asked Jesus in John 8: “Who are you?” This Lent, Richert writes, we should all contemplate this question, as better understanding the nature of Christ — and why God
Scott Richert shares why Christmas is his favorite holiday. While Easter is the greatest Christian feast because of Christ’s sacrifice for our salvation, everything about Christmas, namely the truth of the Incarnation, draws him more deeply into the mystery of the Faith.
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
There has been a lot of discussion recently about women, such as with the “Weinstein Effect” and #MeToo. Misogyny in our culture is on notice, and the idea of womanhood has come to the forefront. In many respects, we have never before