A reader asks: “Can laypeople give blessings? This is going on in my parish in prayer groups and sometimes at Mass where the priest asks everyone to join him by extending their hands to bless ...
OSV publisher Scott P. Richert shares how, from an early age, he has been fascinated by numbers: “I add, subtract, multiply and divide, do square roots and other complex calculations, all in my head and ...
Monsignor Charles Pope answers a reader who asks whether is it allowed — or appropriate — for laypeople to place their hands on others while praying over them for healing or to offer a blessing: ...
In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope answers the question: “What is the Catholic position on teasing? A friend told me to give it up for Lent. Is it always wrong or just a matter ...
A reader writes: “A priest in the Diocese of Phoenix for decades used the incorrect formula when conducting baptisms. As a result, the baptisms along with the other sacraments are considered invalid. I’m at a ...
A reader writes: “My divorced daughter lives with another divorced man part time, and thinks nothing of going to Communion. I am happy that she goes to Mass every Sunday and does daily prayers. A ...
Dr. Greg Popcak looks at the recent decision by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to deny blessing same-sex unions. The response has been widely characterized in the press as a coldhearted, discriminatory ...
In his most recent column, Monsignor Owen Campion, OSV’s chaplain, addresses the recent statement by the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. The statement, he writes, was issued in answer to the question ...
On the evening of March 27, 2020, as dusk was descending on Rome, Pope Francis stepped onto a covered podium as raindrops danced around him on the ancient cobblestones of a deserted St. Peter’s Square. ...
While homosexual men and women must be respected, any form of blessing a same-sex union is "illicit," said the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The negative judgment is on the blessing of unions, ...
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