Only God Can Change Hearts

Roch Niemier, OFM January 11, 2025

Francis himself realized that prayer or fasting cannot change one’s heart. Only God can.

woman sitting in a church pew with folded hands

‘Your Heart Is to Be an Altar of God’

Jack Wintz, OFM January 10, 2025

In writing to a Poor Clare, St. Bonaventure said, “Your heart is to be an altar of God. It is here that the fire of intense love must burn always.”

Young man standing on top of a mountain, above the clouds

Thin Places Everywhere

Bruce Epperly January 10, 2025

Celtic spiritual guides identified certain geographical places as “thin places,” where heaven and earth meet and we can experience the nearness of God.

A Letter to Elizabeth Ann Seton

Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, PhD January 4, 2025

On the day of your canonization as the first saint born in the United States, I happily anticipated the well-deserved attention your remarkable life would receive.

A Time to Rebuild

Franciscan Media December 30, 2024

St. Francis told us to “begin again,” but first we need to rebuild the ruins in and around us.

woman sitting on a rock and looking in the valleys below, during a sunset

All That Is, Is Divine

Mark Forrester December 29, 2024

A natural theology doesn’t worship creation but sees and hears within creation a witness of praise to the creator. All that is created by the divine has a divine providence.

Black Eyed Peas drummer and producer Keith Harris is pictured in an undated photo talking to the handbell choir and choral singers of Sisters of Mary Schools in the Philippines during a recording of a new Christmas song "It's That Time Of Year" written by Harris, fellow bandmate Filipino-American Apl.de.Ap and David "DQ" Quiñones.

3,000 Catholic school kids, Black Eyed Peas members make new Christmas song

OSV News December 25, 2024

As many as 3,000 Catholic school children from poor families in the Philippines made their pop music debut in a new Christmas song by some members of the multi-platinum hip-hop/pop group Black Eyed Peas.

Pilgrims pray next to the coffin of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati at St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia, July 10. Blessed Pier Giorgio died at age 24 in 1925 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1990. (CNS photo/Daniel Munoz, Reuters)

The story of the LA miracle that will make Pier Giorgio Frassati a saint

OSV News December 20, 2024

For those who knew the strange story of Juan Gutierrez’s ankle, or even parts of it, the word “miracle” was hard not to think of.

A Sacred Invitation: Laying Down our Power Before the Manger

Carie Moore December 19, 2024

It was mid-November when I began unpacking holiday crates and adorning our home with Christmas decorations. Perhaps it was the ongoing surge of dizzying news that made decorating for Christmas so early sound so enticing—a small bit of joy I could control amidst the uncontrollable chaos of the world…

A file photo shows a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe as it is unloaded from a truck after a procession to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, where Mass was celebrated.

California bishops back migrants fearing mass deportation in Guadalupe message

OSV News December 13, 2024

(OSV News) — As President-elect Donald Trump threatens to enact “the largest deportation” in U.S. history, California’s Catholic bishops have issued a message of support for migrants,