WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers gathered Sept. 18 to call for the immediate release from …
The Witness & Zeal of the Korean Martyrs
How can the Faith survive without access to the sacraments? Is it possible for the laity to spread the Gospel …
Is the annulment process just a way to get around the church’s prohibition on divorce?
Q: I was married in a non-Catholic wedding ceremony, then divorced years later civilly. Once I became Catholic and wanted …
Your Daily Bible Verses — Proverbs 17:6
ENCOUNTERING THE WORD — YOUR DAILY BIBLE VERSES “Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of sons is …
Corpus Mysticum: The Divorce of the Mystical from the Sacramental Body
From the beginning of Christianity, the Eucharist had always been considered in relation to the Church. The “communion of the …
The Garden
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Edwin Arlington Robinson. The Garden There is a fenceless garden …
University of Notre Dame’s new president aims to be a bridge-builder
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (OSV News) — When Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh became president of the University of Notre Dame …
The Conflict Thesis Reimagined: From Theological Reform to Secular Weapon
Recent scholarship on the so-called conflict between science and religion has revisited the reception of John William Draper’s History of …
Second synod session to open with penitential liturgy
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The second session of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, set to bring 368 bishops, priests, …
The Witness: Revelation Comes from Elsewhere
The religions known as revealed offer a strange characteristic: contrary to what is often repeated (when denouncing the supposed “fanaticism” …