Poverty is the result of people's selfishness; it is not "fate" or the fault of the poor, Pope Francis said. "Unless we choose to become poor in passing riches, worldly power and vanity, we will never ...
After a federal court dismissed Planned Parenthood's challenge to a Lubbock ordinance that declares the city a "Sanctuary for the Unborn," a lawyer with the Chicago-based Thomas More Society said he believes these sanctuary cities ...
Managing editor Scott Warden writes about a recent time in which he asked God to intervene in a trivial matter — namely, the outcome of a baseball game. It didn’t go as he hoped it ...
Kim Cameron-Smith, a literature, writing and grammar teacher in grades 4-12, and a catechist, shares a list of books that offers good reads for young people this summer. Included here are stories that ignite our ...
MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Mexican Church officials previously “covered up” cases of clerical sexual abuse, a situation the Vatican ambassador to Mexico said has changed as Catholic leaders increasingly follow a zero-tolerance policy promoted by ...
OSV publisher Scott Richert writes that as we look toward a post-COVID world, the reality is that society largely will go back to doing things the way it did them before the virus. However, Richert ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis summarized his “pilgrimage of faith and penitence” to Iraq in a prayer: “If God is the God of life — for so he is — then it is wrong ...
In a new reflection on the life of St. Joseph, Notre Dame theology professor John Cavadini explores how uncovering St. Joseph’s mysterious role in the Incarnation can lead us to a deeper appreciation of the ...
The need for "deep, spiritual conversion of all members of the church stands out" as a key theme of the "instrumentum laboris," the working document for Australia's Plenary Council, due to begin in October, said ...
While Jesus’s earthly life unfolded in time in a particular place and culture, his saving mission was universal. At the heart of Jesus’ preaching was the coming of God’s kingdom on earth with the divine ...
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