Priests across the country have volunteered to serve on special ministerial teams offering the anointing of the sick to COVID-19 patients. In a special report from Our Sunday Visitor, several priests share stories from the ...
In his latest column from Our Sunday Visitor, Monsignor Owen Campion explores what the Church and the world have learned from Benedictine monks throughout the ages. He writes that Benedictines were the experts, the learned ...
As water rushes over two dams in central Michigan, much of the city of Midland is under water, forcing thousands of parishioners of St. Brigid of Kildare Church to evacuate their homes, said Father Andy ...
Be ready for Mass by reading Opening the Word for the Ascension of the Lord. This week, Timothy P. O’Malley writes about distance and desire. As we have learned over this quarantine, spent away from ...
In mid-March, Maronite Bishop Gregory Mansour was on his way to run an errand when he noticed a man who had fallen down on the sidewalk and was unable to stand back up on his ...
In the fifth of a 10-part series on the Ten Commandments, Leonard J. DeLorenzo explores the Fourth Commandment: Honor your father and your mother. There is an order to charity — to loving our neighbor. ...
Whenever he spoke, whenever he traveled, whenever he wrote, Pope Saint John Paul II made history. Long before he stepped out onto the loggia of Saint Peter's Basilica in the fall of 1978 as Supreme ...
A reader asks how they could best explain the soul to a non-believer. Monsignor Charles Pope explains that it is important to start with proper definitions. The “soul” is the animating principle of a living ...
Be ready for Mass by reading Opening the Word for the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Timothy P. O’Malley writes about obedience and charism. Obedience is presumed to function as curtailing creativity, quashing charism. The obedient ...
Renée Darline Roden writes about a recent painful experience of recovery from a torn hip labrum injury. She writes, “Health can be regained even when our bodies deviate from the ‘norm.’ In fact, there is ...
