In this week's Opening the Word Scripture reflection, Timothy O'Malley looks ahead to the beginning of Lent, reminding us that each word in the Gospels is an opportunity for us to come to self-knowledge, knowledge ...
What does the Church teach regarding married couples who never have kids? Since marriage is oriented toward the procreation of children, does that make their marriage invalid? Monsignor Charles Pope clarifies this misunderstanding, explaining that ...
The Church is experiencing turbulent times, writes Lawrence Grayson. Priests are questioning their vocations. The universal Church is being besieged externally and internally, politically and culturally. And the United States is evolving into a secularist, ...
In his latest column, Monsignor Owen Campion writes that while the new homeless shelter established by Pope Francis at the Vatican has made headlines recently, the Church has a long history of caring for those ...
In the weeks leading up to the release of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the October 2019 Amazon synod, all of the public voices in the entire Catholic Church seemed to be united on one ...
How often, when the Lord calls us, do we find ourselves busy or distracted or doing something that we have deemed to be better than whatever the Lord might be asking? Just like children who ...
The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board writes: For years now, especially during national election cycles, American Catholics have been politically homeless. Once a major voting bloc, Catholics in the United States have found themselves increasingly ...
Assistant editor Ava Lalor shares her experience at her parish, where they have been formulating a five year plan for the community. At large parish meetings, they were asked to discuss what they are doing ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about the Hard as Nails mission at St. Matthew Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dominican Father Peter John Cameron’s approach to the mission is, as St. Paul, that going to people ...
In the Opening the Word for the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Timothy P. O’Malley writes about the Law of God. In the Old Testament, one who disobeys the Law is participating in the disorder ...
