Ash Wednesday: Wearing Our Faith on Our Foreheads

Susan Hines-Brigger February 14, 2015

If there ever is a day of the year when you can spot Catholics at a glance, Ash Wednesday is it.

Easter Sunday: Room for Everyone

Guest Blogger February 12, 2013

There is a story of Saint Francis eating with his friars one Easter.

dragonfly on lavendar | Photo by HISANARI KUNIMOTO on Unsplash

A Friar Reflects on the Hope of Lent

Jim Van Vurst, OFM February 24, 2012

The word season has many meanings, and each tells us something about what Lent can and should mean for us.

A New Look at the Creed

Greg Friedman, OFM January 26, 2012

What are we proclaiming at Mass each Sunday with the Creed?

chef making food | Photo by Austin Ban on Unsplash

Cooking with Father Dominic: The Bread Monk

Susan Hines-Brigger November 11, 2011

Father Dominic Garramone, OSB, former host of the PBS television show Breaking Bread With Father Dominic, talks about the close connection between faith and food.

Patron Saints for Modern Challenges

Thomas J. Craughwell November 1, 2011

Patron Saints can help us navigate these choppy secular waters.

Violent Video Games: Play at Your Own Risk

Christopher Heffron June 24, 2010

The most unsettling feature of violent video games is that they allow the player, regardless of age, to become the main character of the games—vicious, brutal tendencies and all.

Catholic pro-life activists pray Feb. 11, 2023, outside of Bread and Roses Woman's Health Center, a Clearwater, Fla., clinic that provides abortions. A new annual report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued Jan. 16, 2025, identified what it called five areas of critical concern, defined as both threats and opportunities, for religious liberty. (OSV News photo/Octavio Jones, Reuters)

Murder Is Not Pro-Life

Christopher Heffron September 24, 2009

George Tiller, a medical doctor and one of only a handful of physicians in the country who performed late-term abortions, was one of the most reviled figures by anti-abortion activists.