Ryan P. Burge opens his new book, The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us, with a story that may feel all too familiar: The small ...

A scene from the video for the song "Hands Up," recorded by Jelly Roll at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center in California. Credit: YouTube. In the 2005 biopic “Walk the Line,” a record executive ...

The mighty even now are abusing their might, the lowly are being crushed, the rich are literally getting richer as millions go hungry. And yet.

Chris Keenan, O.F.M., with members of the F.D.N.Y. in New York Credit: Octavio Duran On Sept. 15, 2001, thousands of people gathered to mourn Mychal Judge, O.F.M., the beloved chaplain to the Fire ...

Pope Leo XIV greets a family as he celebrates the final Mass of his apostolic journey to Africa at Malabo Stadium in Equatorial Guinea on April 23, 2026. Credit: OSV News photo/Matteo Pernaselci, ...

Pope Leo XIV speaks during the presentation of “Magnifica Humanitas“ at the Vatican‘s Synod Hall on May 25. Credit: OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media In “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo XIV ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein, a giant of 20th-century philosophy, famously wrote: “Death is not an event in life. We do not live to experience death.” He meant that death itself is a terminus. It is not one ...

A woman prays during a Creole-language Mass at St. Jerome Catholic Church in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 28. Credit: OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters Clearly, the ...

Screenshot of Pope Leo XIV’s video address to participants in the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly in Orlando, Fla. Credit: YouTube (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV encouraged sisters to ...

in this tiny cathedral of my kitchen. God, I scroll. is a verb or a chemical reaction. The phone vibrates again. A stranger asks for help in pixels and hashtags. I hesitate. I type Amen. The battery ...

A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Priest and Martyr “Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones.” (Ps 116:15) Find today’s readings here. There is ...

And how expand into your bright ballooniness? Buon giorno, my Jupiters, my little pagan luminants, pale moons of the summer dawn, auras glowing white-not-white-but-green, my ghostlings, floating.