Scripture readings for Sunday, Sept. 27, Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ez 18:25-28 Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Phil 2:1-11 or Phil 2:1-5 Mt 21:28-32 “Is that your final answer?” Spend enough time watching daytime TV — as I did recently while recovering from surgery — and you realize that on most game shows they almost […]
Jenna Marie Cooper writes Question Corner for OSV News (OSV photo) Q: As a parish priest, I found your recent article on the Church’s teaching on Freemasonry interesting, and I have a follow-up question: How can one deal pastorally with parishioners who are quick to suspect people of being Freemasons? I can think of one […]
A mother and daughter are pictured in a file photo reading in their home. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Misericordia University) By Colleen Pressprich, OSV News The Church teaches that parents are meant to be the primary teachers of the Catholic faith for their children, and that we ought to begin when they are young. The […]
A girl sits in her mother’s lap as mourners attend a prayer vigil at Lynnhurst Park in Minneapolis Aug. 27, 2025, following a shooting earlier in the day at Annunciation Church. A shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of the school’s church and struck children attending Mass during the first week of […]
Father Joshua J. Whitfield writes for OSV News. Scripture readings for Sept. 20, 2026, Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 55:6-9 Ps 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18 Phil 1:20c-24, 27a Mt 20:1-16a Dorothy Day thought that this parable from Matthew’s Gospel, which we hear this Sunday, justified a Catholic’s support for the idea of a living wage. […]
A young man prays during a Labor Day Mass on Sept. 6, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. The Mass organized by the Catholic Labor Network included parishioners, workers and representatives of organized labor. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard) In early October, my newest book, “Staying Sober One Story […]
(Foto de OSV News/Bob Roller) By Father Harrison Ayre, OSV News A crucifix adorns every Church building because it is meant to be a sign of hope for Christians. The cross is the source of salvation, and by looking upon it, we know that the death of Jesus is not the last word. This means […]
Jenna Marie Cooper writes Question Corner for OSV News (OSV photo) Q: I’m a Catholic working at a funeral home and assisting at many Catholic funerals. I’m not always in the church for the entirety of Mass. I’m sometimes out during the Gospel and homily or after Communion since I’m helping with the arrangements. Since […]
Scripture readings for Sunday, Sept. 13, Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sir 27:30—28:7 Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12 Rom 14:7-9 Mt 18:21-35 How much is enough? This Sunday’s Gospel begins with Peter asking that question, but with a very specific idea in mind. How much do I have to forgive my brother? How many times? […]
New York firefighters and rescue workers are seen Sept. 11, 2001, carrying Franciscan Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain with the New York Fire Department, who died while giving last rites to a firefighter following terrorist attacks that would soon bring down the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Twenty-five years after the 9/11 terrorism […]