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.

While few humans are blessed with receiving a beatific vision—or seeing God directly—most of us, like Moses, see God’s back after God has come and gone. In other words, we see (or experience) God in hindsight, through holy aha moments.

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.

man walking on beach while waves crashing

Faith in Flux

Susan Hines-Brigger January 9, 2025

Throughout our lives, our faith is going to experience ebbs and flows. Over time it will grow, change, and even, at times, be challenged.

Our True Source of Peace

Brother David Steindl-Rast January 9, 2025

“One is the human Spirit,” but the human Spirit is more than human because the human heart is unfathomable.

Demonstrators march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City Sept. 20, 2024, to call for an end to the era of fossil fuels (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

Catholic climate policy advocates express concern about Trump proposals

OSV News January 9, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump Jan. 7 reiterated his call for some companies that make investments in the U.S. economy to bypass some environmental regulations.