When Maisie Ward, in her biography of Caryll Houselander, called her “that divine eccentric,” Ward knew what she was talking about. Although divinity was up to God, there was no …
Opinion
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It’s been a short week thanks to the Memorial Day holiday here in the U.S., but still a busy one for OSV News. Besides putting several interesting stories on the …
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“The Beast of Bethulia Park”S.P. CaldwellGracewing Publishing, 432 pages A few years ago, while musing on the Catholic imagination and the deep need for Catholic literary fiction that goes beyond …
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I’ve met many saintly people in my life, but rarely do they make the news. Years ago, I took photos of the consecration of the Abbey of Our Lady of …
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Andrea Long Chu, a male who identifies as a transgender woman, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism for “book reviews that scrutinize authors as well as their works, using …
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When my wife bought a Subaru a few years ago, we not only got a car. We also received a company magazine called “Drive.” Subaru is trying to use a …
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Now King David was old, well on in years. They would cover him up, but he could not get warm. So his servants said to him, “My lord, the king, …
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What could possibly bring G. K. Chesterton, a religious order of female mice and a prize wheel of cheese together? Perhaps just some human imagination and a gifted mom’s wish …
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Jen Norton, “Arise to Blessedness”Ave Maria Press, Jan 2023160 pages, $18.95 So, my Lent had been pretty easy pedaling in 2023. Declaring it an “Old Testament Lent,” I’d found instructive …
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What are you doing in Lent? Some are trying something new, something that will jolt them out of complacency; others have returned to practices that have been meaningful and successful …
