Renée Roden shares a reflection on the grief of Job, COVID-19 and All Souls Day. Relating to the story of Job, Roden asks, “How does a believer reconcile a God who is good with the ...
Throughout the Church, the month of October is dedicated to the holy Rosary. While Latin rite Catholics often think of the Rosary as exclusively a practice for Catholics in the West, Catholics in the East ...
D.D. Emmons explores the life of Saint Martin de Porres, America’s first Black saint. Born in 1579 in Lima, Peru, he and his sister grew up in abject poverty. Martin received only limited schooling and, ...
Writer Bill Dodds asks the question, “Is it righteous anger or sinful rage?” He offers five suggestions to handle your fiery spark: “Gently, patiently strive for inner peace and calm, and remember: In the end, ...
Lenny DeLorenzo, in his 10th Letter to Young Catholics, discusses the Catholic view of the proper role of sexuality in relationships. He writes: “The Catholic understanding of sex is not, not about pleasure. Rather, this ...
Erin McCole Cupp writes about the pains she endured from an abusive childhood. She writes: “Jesus provides in the Beatitudes a new law, a positive law that teaches survivors of family abuse and dysfunction what ...
Life is chaotic, and Molly Farinholt, a recent college graduate, wife and mother of a newborn, writes, “We aren’t created for chaos. We are made to live ordered lives, oriented always toward God. And it ...
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Derek Rotty shares how St. Peter Claver is the perfect patron for race relations in our day and age. Rotty writes: “We stand in a moment of ...
Our Sunday Visitor’s contributing editor Russell Shaw writes about his upcoming book The Life of Christ. It is a narrative of the life of Christ, taken from the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and ...
Writer David Mills explores the concept of home — and how there is no better place to practice the virtues that will lead to our eternal home with God in heaven. Mills writes: “As Christians, ...
