With the upheaval and violence in Washington, Kathryn Jean Lopez offers direction by looking at Pope St. John Paul II’s first encyclical, Redemptor Hominis. John Paul reminds us, “The Church’s fundamental function in every age ...
Daniel Cellucci, the CEO of the Catholic Leadership Institute, explores the question, “What if they don’t come back?” The implications of perhaps 30% or more of our people not coming back are many and significant. ...
A reader asks Monsignor Charles Pope, “How does the gift of faith work?” He answers: “Faith works essentially by putting us in a trusting, life-changing, transformative relationship with the Lord. In and through this relationship ...
Kenneth Craycraft writes: “Having just completed the most bitterly divisive presidential election in our lifetimes, it is useful to think about the abiding problem of partisan identification, especially among Catholics. The fissures that the election ...
There are so many voices around, crying for our attention, bombarding our senses. How can we discern or distinguish and identify the voice of God? Jesuit Father Peter Schineller observes that God often speaks to ...
Before September 18, few people were looking forward to the final six weeks of the presidential campaign. But following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we are all fastening our figurative seat ...
Gretchen Crowe has never really liked the phrase “Let go, and let God.” It has always seemed too trite, too “cutesy,” too simple, she writes. “But upon further reflection, in this year of Our Lord ...
Monsignor. Owen F. Campion looks at the downward trend of religious participation in some European countries. He writes, “This time is coming soon for the Church in the United States. American culture more and more ...
A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, a respected analyst of popular opinion, recently discovered that a quarter of Americans who identify themselves as religious say that the COVID-19 pandemic has strengthened their faith, ...
In his latest column, Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw writes that he has been bombarded by advertisements about safety and security during this coronavirus pandemic, but, he says, the Gospels tell us to ...
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