Publisher Scott P. Richert recounts a previous experience in which he wrote about the murder of an abortionist, only to have a reader tell him that the Chuch should consider the killing to be justified, ...
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 ...
Many Catholics are surprised when they first learn that the celebration of Christmas came rather late, as feasts of Our Lord go, writes Scott Richert in his latest column. The feast of the Epiphany, on ...
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 ...
Scott P. Richert, in the All Things New column, encourages Catholics not to take a political Manichaeism approach to politicians’ policies that dissent with Church teaching. Politicians have both good and bad ideas. He writes, ...
OSV Publisher Scott P. Richert writes that while some Catholics might be celebrating seeing one of their own elected to serve as president, the advent of the second Catholic president poses even more challenges than ...
Elevation to the office of the papacy does not guarantee a man a greater than average dose of the cardinal virtue of prudence. Such a statement ought to be self-evident and therefore uncontroversial, but you ...
Scott Richert writes that with Election Day around the corner, now is the time to examine what matters most to our lives, and he proposes an answer: those things that are closest to us. He ...
Publisher Scott Richert writes: “The conventional wisdom advises that one should never discuss politics or religion in polite company. My family never could abide conventional wisdom. … Those political debates didn’t tear us apart. They ...
In his latest column, OSV Publisher Scott Richert asks: What if you woke up tomorrow and found that the office of the presidency no longer existed? Would your life change in any meaningful way? In ...