Anya Taylor-Joy stars in a scene from the movie “The Witch.” The OSV News classification is L — limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association rating is R — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. (OSV News photo/A24 Films) By Julie Davis, OSV […]
(Getty Images) Lately, instead of greeting the day with “thank you, Lord, that I get to have another one!” I rise with a cranky growl, mentally grousing at God and giving the saints a bit of Irish lip, too. Autumn, my favorite season, is partly to blame. I tell myself that I’m cranky because what […]
Jenna Marie Cooper writes Question Corner for OSV News (OSV photo) Q: As another follow-up to the question of what laity do during the Our Father at Mass: When the law is silent, would not the Church’s liturgical law envision that custom in a parish governs what the faithful do or not do in order […]
Scripture readings for Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ex 22:20-26 Ps 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51 1 Thes 1:5c-10 Mt 22:34-40 Really, it’s a lot harder than it sounds. We’ve heard this passage so often, maybe we’re used to it. But encountering Matthew’s Gospel this Sunday, maybe we need to hear it […]
Jenna Marie Cooper writes Question Corner for OSV News (OSV photo) Q: I have a question about the rules and teachings around Catholic marriage for persons with some mild intellectual disability and English language abilities: Can they be married in the Catholic Church? I’m sure you could answer by saying it depends on the individual […]
A file photo shows a girl at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City watching her mother cast her ballot during early voting. (OSV News photo/Jeenah Moon, Reuters) By Colleen Pressprich, OSV News Election season is upon us, and most, if not all, of us here in the US find ourselves bombarded with ads, pamphlets, […]
An image of St. Kateri Tekakwitha and other Native American items made of bark are displayed March 5, 2024, in the Diocese of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. (OSV News photo/Pascal Huot, courtesy Mission Chez Nous) One in an OSV series on the American saints. The Mohawk village of Ossernenon was the site of the gruesome and torturous […]
Father Joshua J. Whitfield writes for OSV News. Scripture readings for Oct. 18, 2026, Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 45:1, 4-6 Ps 96:1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10 1 Thes 1:1-5b Mt 22:15-21 St. Anthony the Great, centuries ago, predicted that a time would come, he said, “when people will rave and when they see […]
The famed French saint, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, affectionately known by devotees as “The Little Flower,” born Thérèse Martin, is pictured in the Carmel of Lisieux on an undated photograph. Two years after St. Thérèse became the first saint he canonized, and one year after he established World Mission Sunday, Pope Pius XI in 1927 […]
This the cover for “I’m Depressed — Now What?: St. Dymphna’s Guide to Building Your Depression Playbook” by Tommy Tighe, published with Ave Maria Press in 2026. (OSV News graphic/courtesy Ave Maria Press) “I’m Depressed — Now What?: St. Dymphna’s Guide to Building Your Depression Playbook”Tommy Tighe, Ave Maria Press (2026)160 pages, $16.95 St. Dymphna […]