As Catholic Christians, we are called to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ at all times to all people. We are called to speak this truth in season and out, when it’s simple and when ...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic was a part of our daily reality, many Catholic schools faced shrinking enrollment and shrinking budgets. Then came March 2020 and, along with it, the final nail in the coffin of ...
A reader asks for clarity whether people can earn their way into heaven. In his response, Monsignor Charles Pope explains: “We cannot earn salvation. We are saved by the grace of faith working through love. ...
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, ...
Msgr. Owen Campion writes in his latest column that respect for human life experienced two serious setbacks as 2020 came to an end, and each occurred in a very unexpected place. In Spain, which is ...
Assistant editor Ava Lalor writes about how she never thought she would want to go to confession with a priest she also considered a friend. She writes: “I remember one of my seminarian [friends] making ...
Reflecting on the readings for the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, Timothy O’Malley says that to be a fisher of men is to participate in the work of discipleship, inviting others into the kingdom. St. ...
The rerelease of a biography on the life of St. Junipero Serra, originally published in 1933, couldn’t have come at a better time. Recently, statues of the saint have been toppled or defaced, as Serra ...
Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw writes: “With searing images of mob violence at the U.S. Capitol fresh in memory, Joe Biden comes to the presidency as a potential healer of divisions and binder ...
Editorial director for periodicals Gretchen R. Crowe writes about the transition into the liturgical season of Ordinary Time: “The Church may be back in Ordinary Time, but these times feel as if they are anything ...