(OSV News) — As preparations begin for the 1,500th anniversary of the founding of Italy’s Monte Cassino, the mother abbey …
The Humanities and the Birds of Appetite
The Liberal Arts and/as Augury There is a pair of red-tailed hawks who have taken up residence in the wooded …
Pope Leo XIV: Sts. Peter and Paul show us how to be ‘servants of the truth in charity’
VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — On the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Leo XIV personally placed the pallium on …
5 Key Things Nearly Everyone Missed in the Pope’s Letter to Teachers
I want to start with a footnote. Footnote 24, at the very end of Drawing New Maps of Hope, cites …
Father Isaac Hecker: Father of American evangelization
Editor’s note: This is part of a series exploring the lives of Great American Catholics ahead of the United States’ …
2 Opus Dei members who died trying rescue a friend to receive Carnegie Medals
(OSV News) — A prestigious North American awarding body is set to confer medals on two Catholic men who died in …
Cardinal Francis Spellman: A dramatic, hard-fought rise to the top
(OSV News) — Many cardinals have had books written about them, but few have become the fictionalized heroes of best-selling …
10 Principles for Treating Time as Treasure
A successful cardiac surgeon once told me he realized he had mastered time when he could perform a life-saving operation …
When the White House hosted a Catholic wedding, and then a baptism
(OSV News) — U.S. President Andrew Jackson had a reputation as a violent man: While still a teenager he fought …
USCCB and pro-life leaders: Abortion pills remain key post-Dobbs challenge
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — On the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision by the U.S. Supreme …