During this fourth week of Lent, I recommend Grazie Christie's The Severe Truth of Lent—a meditation on Christ taking on in his Passion "every vile sin committed before that day and since" to inspire your prayer and sacrifice this week.
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"You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in your passage through life." - John Henry Cardinal Newman
As Lent begins again, and with it, the desire to follow Christ on the way to Calvary, I am fascinated, as all Western civilization has been for two millennia, by the Cross at the end of that uphill climb.
In a recent viral video receiving massive online blowback, the author and historian Yuval Noah Harari says, "Human rights, just like God and heaven, are just a story that we've invented."
Watch Cardinal Burke's video calling upon all Catholics to join him in a significant Novena seeking Our Lady's intercession. Those who sign up to accompany the Cardinal in this urgent effort can expect short video reflections from His Eminence each month, in addition to regular written reflections and prayers.
Ruth Marcus opened a recent Washington Post column with a "welcome to the theocracy." She was referring to an opinion by Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker on a state constitutional amendment regarding "the sanctity of unborn life" as applied to IVF embryos.
Lent is a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It's a time we're to grow closer to the Lord and deeper in our faith. As we wander through the desert like Jesus did, we trip up.
As Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine reaches the two-year mark Feb. 24, OSV News sat down with Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, recently returned from his latest visit to Ukraine, for his insights on the war.
Both Christian Concern and Open Doors rank Nigeria as one of the worst countries for Christians to live in after North Korea, and followed by India, Iran, China, Pakistan and Eritrea as top countries for Christian persecution.
Peter Ramey's new translation of the ancient epic Beowulf can help in addressing inadequate understandings, found among many Catholics today, of what it means to be a man.
We must admit that we live in an age characterized by a deep and unwitting forgetfulness. The question Cluny asks, then, is this: How can we see where we are if we have no knowledge of where we have been?
Francis X. Maier's True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church is both a passionate statement of faith and love of the Church and a careful inquiry into what a cross-section of American bishops, priests, deacons, and lay people are thinking and doing at a very difficult moment for the Church and the world.
"Guadalupe: Mother of Humanity," which opened Feb. 22 in the U.S., is a compelling, moving, piece of art with the potential to win over new hearts to Our Lady and her son.