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Author’s winning mysteries combine adventure, history and faith

NAPLES, Fla. (OSV News) — Inspired by the enthusiasm and innate wisdom of his 12-year-old son, Antony Barone Kolenc is filling a critical void...

April 14, 2024

Book Reviews

Embark with your child on a ‘Catholic Sacraments Adventure’

I recently had a chance to preview Voyage Publishing’s newest hardcover book for young readers — “Seek and You Will Find: A Catholic Sacraments...

April 5, 2024

Opinion

An Adventurous Suggestion for 2024 Reading

When I began writing this monthly column in January 2023, I named it “Redeeming the Time.” I use the space to revisit some past...

January 10, 2024

Opinion

Why the Magnificat is the perfect prayer in Advent

Anyone who says evening prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours regularly recites the Magnificat from the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke....

December 17, 2023

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Posadas and pastoral outreach are central features in Latino Advent preparation

(OSV News) — The Christmas season is a time anticipated not only by children, but by everyone. In a time when the cold winter...

December 16, 2023
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, who heads the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, blesses the Holy Door after it was sealed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Dec. 3, 2023, the first Sunday of Advent. (OSV News photo/Alex Cranstoun, courtesy Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception) Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, who heads the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, blesses the Holy Door after it was sealed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Dec. 3, 2023, the first Sunday of Advent. (OSV News photo/Alex Cranstoun, courtesy Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception)

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Archbishop exhorts Advent vigilance as national shrine’s Holy Door sealed

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — “Waiting is one of the watchwords of the liturgical season of Advent, which we begin today,” Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio...

December 6, 2023

Opinion

Let the warmth of Advent pull the bleak midwinter from you

Christina Rosetti’s poem, In the Bleak Midwinter, is a Christmas classic. “In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron,...

December 3, 2023

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Sometimes called ‘little Lent,’ Advent zeros in on preparation, which can include penitence

(OSV News) — For Kendra Tierney, a Catholic author and mother of 10, the Advent season leading up to Christmas is like preparing to...

November 25, 2023

Opinion

Sacrificing excitement to make the wait of Advent more holy

Waiting has never been my strong suit. I tend to associate long waits with a childhood tradition that I’m certain my mother invented. Each...

November 19, 2023

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New texts for Eucharistic adoration, Communion outside Mass aim to promote unity

(OSV News) — Three years after being approved by the U.S. Catholic bishops, updates to the ritual texts for distribution of holy Communion outside...

September 29, 2024
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