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Be ready for Mass this Sixth Sunday of Easter. Catherine Cavadini reflects upon the law of love that Christ lays out in the Gospel: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” “If we love Christ and enter into the intimate relationship that “he himself is,” we will love as Christ loves. Christ’s love will become our new way of life.” She adds, “And then a most beautiful indwelling will happen: “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you.” This post Love as a treasured possession appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

MAY

4 vital tools to help keep your kids safe during confession (or anywhere else)

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Simcha Fisher

Award-winning columnist Simcha Fisher responds to a tweet asking Catholics how they can send their kids to confession when so many priests over the past decades were sexual abusers. Fisher replies by giving parents four tips in how they can help to keep their kids safe: “As Catholics, we believe that confession is a great gift from Christ where we can meet him and he will relieve our burdens and strengthen us. Most priests simply want to give people this gift. It is not necessary either to desanctify the sacrament or to frighten kids and make confession seem like a risky, terrifying place.” This post 4 vital tools to help keep your kids safe during confession (or anywhere else) appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

MAY

Does the Shroud of Turin contradict Scripture?

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Msgr. Charles Pope

A reader is wondering: “The Easter Gospel mentions the burial cloths that John and Peter found in the empty tomb. The passage makes a point that the cloth around Jesus’ head was separate from the rest. The Shroud of Turin seems to be one continuous cloth that covers his whole body, including the head. Please reconcile this apparent contradiction.” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope quickly explains this contradiction as well as expounds on the reasons to believe in the Shroud of Turin. This post Does the Shroud of Turin contradict Scripture? appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

MAY

Britain’s Catholics prepare for king’s upcoming coronation

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OSV News

When King Charles III is crowned May 6 in the gothic splendor of London's ancient Westminster Abbey, it will be one of the year's most watched events. The coronation has attracted controversy -- not least over its $125 million price tag during a cost-of-living crisis -- even as opinion polls show dwindling public interest in the monarchy. But despite controversies, it will still be an opportunity to project the soft-power of British royal pageantry and reaffirm Christianity's place in public affairs, including the presence of Britain's small but significant Catholic minority. This post Britain’s Catholics prepare for king’s upcoming coronation appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

MAY

Buyer beware: Women’s safety is a key oversight in the abortion pill debate

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Elizabeth Kirk

Over the last several weeks, various courts in the U.S. judicial system — including the Supreme Court — have issued rulings on the legality of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. Even for legal scholars, the decisions have been hard to follow. In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Elizabeth Kirk, director of the Center for Law and the Human Person at The Catholic University of America, clears up the confusion, writing that the plaintiffs in the case are claiming that the safety regulations used in the trial of the drug are not being put in place in real-world applications. Kirk writes: “If the plaintiffs are correct, and the FDA abused its legitimate authority and ignored science in such a way that endangers women, all of us — whatever our views on abortion — should be gravely concerned and eager for a full and fair hearing to take place in court.” This post Buyer beware: Women’s safety is a ke

MAY

True faith is open to others, pope repeatedly says in Hungary

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Catholic News Service

Praising the piety and charity of Hungarian Christians and their commitment to supporting traditional family life, Pope Francis said Christ also calls them to open their hearts -- and perhaps their borders -- to others in need. When it comes to the church or to society, isolationism is not Christian, the pope said in a variety of ways during his visit to Budapest, Hungary, April 28-30. This post True faith is open to others, pope repeatedly says in Hungary appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

APR

Alaskan deacon proclaims the Gospel through icons

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Simcha Fisher

Simcha Fisher interviews deacon and iconographer Charles Rohrbacher, who says these “windows of heaven” are images that proclaim the Gospel. And images and the Gospel are meant to go together. Deacon Rohrbacher says, “But each icon at its truest is the fruit of prayer.” He adds, “It’s done with love and prayer and intentionality of service, and out of that, at the end, there’s an icon.” The deacon said: “You don’t want to write slogans all over the windows to heaven. You want them to be clear so you can see Christ and Mary and the saints through the images.” This post Alaskan deacon proclaims the Gospel through icons appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

APR

Staten Island ferry named for Dorothy Day makes maiden voyage

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OSV News

A floating monument to Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, made its maiden voyage to Manhattan April 28, sailing forth from Day’s adopted home of Staten Island that afternoon. This post Staten Island ferry named for Dorothy Day makes maiden voyage appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

APR

How gender ideology is co-opting people of goodwill

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Kenneth Craycraft

Columnist Kenneth Craycraft discusses the difficulties of supporting people with gender dysphoria or who identify as transgender due to the dominance of other groups and ideologies that distort the issues, making it difficult to have meaningful conversations. Craycraft endorses a recent column by Elizabeth Scalia who provides a template for thoughtful consideration about transgender issues and skillfully frames the broader issue of gender dysphoria and transgenderism. Dylan Mulvaney, who commercializes “performance art” through the “365 Days of Girlhood” TikTok series, is used as an example of someone who hurts the cause of people with gender dysphoria. Craycraft argues that people like Mulvaney prevent authentic debate about real issues of sexual attraction and gender identity and make it difficult for those who genuinely struggle with gender identity to be treated with the love and compassion that they are due. This post How gender ideology is co-opting peopl

APR

Turning to Mary in times of crisis

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Dr. Robert Fastiggi

Just as the Catholic Church has turned to the Blessed Virgin Mary numerous times in history, so, too, has the tragedy of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic moved many Catholics to pray to Our Lady for help. Perhaps the most vivid example has been Pope Francis, who visited the icon of Maria Salus Populi Romani on March 15 and then had the icon brought to St. Peter’s Basilica for his March 27 extraordinary urbi et orbi blessing. The pope’s witness is clear: Mary is both the Mother of the Church and the Mother of all people. But why should we turn to Mary in times of need, and how has she interceded for the Church throughout history? Find out online. This post Turning to Mary in times of crisis appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

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‘Fully alive’ NCYC youth challenged to celebrate mysteries of faith, science and self

30 nov, 2023

by OSV News (OSV News) — Grace Stecker of the Diocese of Helena, Mont., pulled out her cell phone and called her dad, right in the middle of a talk during the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC). In fact, teens all around her were talking on their phones, even as the speaker stood on the stage. But they had his permission. “I want you right now, in one minute, to just make a call to somebody in your life whom you love, who’s pretty special, whom you appreciate,” Scripture scholar and astrophysicist Father John Kartje asked of the more than 12,000 NCYC participants. The request came as part of his talk on the oneness of God and the universe — faith and science — that served as the topic of the opening session of NCYC in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Nov. 16. He began the talk echoing words spoken by Archbishop Charles C. Thompson just moments before. “The line that really struck me amongst everything he said is this,” Father Kartje noted: “You’re not a problem to be solved, but you are a mystery to be encountered.”

New book explores how Our Lady of Guadalupe sparked millions of conversions

30 nov, 2023

by Katie Yoder Joseph Julián and Monique González still remember the moment they decided to write a book shedding new light on Our Lady of Guadalupe: May 10, 2016, the month of Mary and the date of Mexico’s Mother’s Day. “After years of initial research, we were sitting in a coffee shop and looked at each other and made a formal commitment to see the book’s writing through to the end, no matter what that meant,” the husband-and-wife team told Our Sunday Visitor. Today, that book presents a new interpretation of Our Lady of Guadalupe by delving into the past ahead of her feast day on Dec. 12. “ Guadalupe and the Flower World Prophecy: How God Prepared the Americas for Conversion Before the Lady Appeared ,” published on Nov. 21, explores how Our Lady’s encounters with Juan Diego at Tepeyac Hill in Mexico in 1531 marked the culmination of thousands of years of evangelical preparation of the people of Mesoamerica.

The Father Creator

30 nov, 2023

“The Father Creator also engenders creativity in those who live as his children. So they learn to look at the world with new eyes, made more luminous by love and hope. They are eyes that enable one to look inside oneself with truth and to see far and wide in charity. Under this gaze, others do not seem like obstacles to overcome, but brothers and sisters to welcome.” — Pope Francis Reflection : How do you see other people, especially those most unlike you? What do you see when you look inside your own heart and mind? To what extent does the light of the Father’s love and hope influence what you see in the world? This content comes to you from Our Sunday Visitor courtesy of your parish or diocese.

November 30, 2023

30 nov, 2023

Mt 4:18-22 Jesus’ core group of the Twelve is chosen. They are fishermen going about their everyday work. Jesus calls them and without hesitation or thought, they leave their business and their families to follow him. Because of their spontaneity we know Jesus’ invitation to a new vocation had divine origin. How many have said no to your invitation because of feelings of inadequacy or fear of change. In time and by your grace, may the no become yes. St. Andrew, pray for us. This content comes to you from Our Sunday Visitor courtesy of your parish or diocese.