Europe’s supreme gift was the gift of African identity, bequeathed without grace or design—but a reality all the same. —Ali Mazrui …
Why it’s worth thinking about friendship this Catholic Schools Week
By Peter K. Kilpatrick It is fitting that as Catholic Schools Week begins and we mark the feast of St. …
Bells
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by William Prendiville. Bells Bells still ring.You can hear them across …
UPDATE: Alabama carries out first-ever nitrogen gas execution decried by faith leaders
By Kate Scanlon Peter Jesserer Smith(OSV News) — The state of Alabama carried out the first known execution by nitrogen …
The Practical Nihilism of Our Time
Fernando De Haro: In the last ten years, Communion and Liberation (CL) has talked a lot about nihilism, the practical nihilism …
God’s Gift
…and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. – Ephesians 4:24 …
Catholic priest with 50 years of service and his sister killed in Florida shooting spree
(OSV News) — A retired Florida Catholic priest and his sister were killed in a multi-location rampage that also took …
Pope Francis expressed his closeness with community after an attack on the Catholic church in Istanbul
By Michael Kelly (OSV News) — Pope Francis has expressed his closeness to the small Catholic community in Turkey after …
Encouraging Conversion Stories
“But, in my view, there is no greater story of conversion than that of St. Paul (Saul) on the road …
Faith and ‘greatest prayer ever’ help Catholic parents forgive son’s killer
(OSV News) — When they learned of their 23-year-old son’s murder in March 2022, John and Sharon Echaniz fell to …