Theologian Brett Salkeld begins his new column for Our Sunday Visitor by exploring the relationship between faith and reason: “If, as sometimes happens, reason and faith seem to be at odds, Catholics are not asked to opt for one over the other,
Parents in the U.S. are more likely to prioritize passing on their religious views to their children rather than their political views, according to data analysis from the Pew Research Center.
A new analysis of several Pew Research Center surveys found that most
Several media outlets have heaped praise on Peacock’s new streaming show “Mrs. Davis,” whose creators say the show is meant to be an exploration of the intersection of faith and technology. Father Jonathan Mitchican, in a review for Our Sunday Visitor, writes
In 2021, Canadian police services received 3,360 statements related to hate crimes, a 27% increase compared to 2020, with a 260% growth against Catholics, according to a new study by Statistics Canada. In 2020, 2,646 hate crimes had been reported to police.
According
Kathryn Jean Lopez shares a story about how to deal with people when they make assumptions about you. After a recent talk she gave at a conference, she stepped into an Uber with a talkative driver. She writes: “As I left the
Catholic experts are expressing concern after a recent Pew Research Center survey found that only a third (35%) of U.S. Catholic parents say that it is extremely or very important to them that their children grow up to hold similar religious beliefs.
Last week, there was much chatter in Catholic circles about an FBI memo that labeled traditionalist Catholics as potential terrorists. In his latest column, Father Patrick Briscoe, editor of Our Sunday Visitor, writes that it’s true that religion is dangerous, but not
Columnist David Mills explores the confluence of science and religion: “The people at the intellectual heights of our culture believe that religious faith is personal and irrational and has absolutely no place in public life. The public truths, the beliefs on which
(OSV News) — Are science and religion fundamentally opposed to each other? That common notion has “worked a lot of mischief,” said Bishop Robert Barron, who launched a new conference Jan. 13-14 to show how the Catholic Church champions “the unity of
In his latest essay, Our Sunday Visitor columnist David Mills looks at the wisdom of 20th-century psychiatrist Karl Stern, a German Jew who fled the Nazis and converted to Catholicism. Much of Stern’s work was centered around “negative religion” — the concept