News & Commentary
NFL quarterback to coach at Catholic high school after retirement
OSV News
May 16, 2020
Philip Rivers said he fulfilled one childhood dream by playing quarterback in the NFL. He'll soon fulfill another by coaching high school football. The 38-year-old Rivers was named head coach-in-waiting at St. Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope.
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National shrine in Washington celebrates two 100-year milestones
OSV News
May 16, 2020
On May 16, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington -- the largest Catholic church in North America and one of the 10 largest churches in the world -- marks the 100th anniversary of the ...
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Diplomat recalls friendship with cardinal who’s up for sainthood
OSV News
May 16, 2020
Around 1950, in Zanesville, Ohio, a young Patrick Flood's Catholic grade school class watched a movie about persecuted Christians in the newly Communist countries of Eastern Europe. One, he remembers, was Cardinal Mindszenty, then the bishop of Esztergom, Hungary, and ...
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Fauci to graduates: ‘We will get through this’
OSV News
May 16, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is used to addressing the country about steps to contain the coronavirus, but in mid-May he spoke directly to graduates of the nation's 60 Jesuit high schools ...
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Pope: If you can’t go to confession, take your sorrow directly to God
OSV News
May 16, 2020
People who cannot get to confession because of the coronavirus lockdown or another serious reason can go to God directly, be specific about their sins, request pardon and experience God’s loving forgiveness, Pope Francis said.
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Time: Lockdown’s Unexpected Gift
OSV News
May 16, 2020
I was video chatting with my childhood friend yesterday. We haven’t talked in almost a year and we were organizing a virtual happy hour with our high school friends. Why hadn’t we thought about doing this before?
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More states move to copy ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ amid reports of inhumane conditions