As the Rotary Club’s famous Four-Way Test puts it, we should ask, of whatever we think, say or do, is it the truth? But is our understanding of truth implicitly blinkered by modern rationalism? OSV publisher Scott Richert argues that reading the
“What is Truth?” Pontius Pilate famously asked, as he stood before the Son of Man and the Son of God who had equally famously declared, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.” Scott Richert found himself thinking of that
What does conversational intelligence, Pope Francis and media have in common? Gretchen Crowe reflects on the interconnectedness of these three things in her latest column. Commenting on Pope Francis’ message for World Day of Social Communications, celebrated this year on May 21,
In the wake of two talking heads being fired from their major news outlets — Tucker Carlson from Fox News and Don Lemon from CNN, fired on the same day — people should take this opportunity to ask: Where can truth be found?
OSV publisher Scott P. Richert addresses how we are living in a time of “madness” and lies: “The increasing politicization of public discourse has meant that we all too often measure the truth of any statement not by the extent to which
OSV publisher Scott Richert explores the key differences between the Catholic media and secular media — differences that have only been made all too clear in their coverage of recent Supreme Court decision, writing: “When Father John Francis Noll wrote in the
As we celebrate Independence Day, Catholics, Christians and all citizens of the United States should ask themselves: Where does freedom come from? As the Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board writes: “That our true freedom is given to us by God himself wasn’t
In his latest column, Publisher Scott P. Richert addresses a human tendency: to cling to lies and misapprehensions that make sense in the dark. Comparing it to children seeing monsters in their rooms when the lights go out, he writes: “As we
Ellen Mady writes: “Truth is a property of being, and therefore not a virtue in itself; behaving truthfully, however, is a virtue — or rather, several virtues. Honesty, sincerity and transparency are among the values that come together in truthful behavior and
Publisher Scott Richert writes that while there were many deaths that took place in 2020, “the greatest loss this year, though, was not that of a particular person, but the final passing away, after a long, painful decline over many decades (or