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Wishing you a hope-filled and blessed Christmas

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When evil becomes news

Continuous coverage of Virginia Tech shooting misses that we do not control the universe.

Welcoming the strangers

Some of us may lack the drive, the gutsiness and even the patriotic fervor of the immigrant

Web, postal rates stopping the (Catholic) presses

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Unbearable politics lite

Presidential candidates' policy proposals -- even the dramatic -- get too little attention

Truth or consequences

By Greg Erlandson. Presidential candidates and voters ignore dire issues facing country at their own peril

Truth about families

By Greg Erlandson. Visit from relatives reminds OSV publisher that God meant for us to know community

Three cheers for liberal arts education

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Thoughts on class of '07

For this generation, much of experience and values are filtered through popular culture

This Veterans Day, remember those who've served

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This Father's Day, read about the Church Fathers

Openers by Greg Erlandson. Our In Focus section this week focuses on the Church Fathers.

The sower's strategy

If we want to save the kids and hand on the faith, we better start reaching the adults now

The powerful witness of a Cuban patriot

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The never-ending scandal

Something profoundly evil is afoot in our country that plagues every sector of society

The fragility of life

Publisher Greg Erlandson muses about the sudden passing of a fellow parishioner and how we and our culture tend to ignore the inevitability of death.

The end is near, maybe

By Greg Erlandson. Amid the apocalyptic rhetoric, we can make one prediction: The future will need redeeming

The Da Vinci moment

The great challenge facing our Church right now is educating adult Catholics in the faith

The cult of the busy

Working too hard is different from hard work.

Thank you, Notre Dame

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Controversy gives us chance to tackle issues of identity, authority and academic freedom

Tempus fugit, darn it!

Children keep growing in strength and, God willing, grace, despite our efforts to slow time

Stealth genocide

Abortion and sexually transmitted diseases wage war on future generations of blacks

Spring break features monks and mushrooms

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Monastery visit recalls a time when man did not see himself as apart from nature

Spectator: Why you are an idiot

Column by Greg Erlandson, OSV publisher. Political debate keeps getting sillier, but the consequences are serious and hurting us all.

Spectator: 'We should all be one'

Greg Erlandson's column. A foreign priest recounts his experiences: 'I want to tell you the other side,' the voice said.

Spectator: Tomatoes and the peacock

Spectator column by Greg Erlandson, OSV publisher. Network television is losing audience share because it has less wit or substance to offer.

Spectator: To kneel or not to kneel

Please kneel? Mass confusion aside, publisher Greg Erlandson affirms that its all about Gods glory.

Spectator: The Latin Mass appeal

OSV Publisher Greg Erlandson's Spectator column, this week focusing on the appeal of the Latin Mass.

Spectator: Life after Ted Haggard

Spectator column by Greg Erlandson, Our Sunday Visitor publisher. Another Christian sinner grabs the headlines and reminds us we are all vulnerable to sin.

Spectator: Debating war's end game

This column is free for all visitors. Specator column by Greg Erlandson, OSV publisher. If we cannot achieve what would normally be called a victory, we cannot walk away form it.

Speaking truth to power

Free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. It's time for Catholic Americans to make sure pro-abortion leaders know where we stand

Show them the money

While dioceses go bankrupt, laywers can't cash in on abuse cases within public schools.

Shopping for a college

Son's search makes father wonder which school is better, Catholic or non-Catholic

Sex abuse goes to school

Kudos to the AP for a long-overdue exposé on sexual abuse in nation's public schools

Sex abuse and the pope

By Greg Erlandson. During his U.S. visit, Pope Benedict XVI put the painful scandal in a larger context

Servants and superheroes

By Greg Erlandson. All Catholics -- not just priests -- are called to do the work of the Gospel in the world

Scandal's mounting toll

Those who profess concern for the abused spend little time investigating other groups

Roman postcards

A recent visit brought surprises, but some things never change in the Eternal City

Remembering Hyde and his commitment to life

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Reflecting on religion's role in American society

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Questions remain after Notre Dame

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Debates over identity, authority and abortion continue to reverberate among U.S. Catholics

Psychedelic experiencesTurbulent year known for 'f

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Pro-life's day after

By Greg Erlandson. Here are five priorities for the anti-abortion movement if it wants to save the unborn

PETA cracks monks' resolve

Mepkin Abbey forced to give up its livelihood under fire of well-funded propaganda assault

Out of rage

This article has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. 'While a few people are profiting from all this anger, we as a nation are the worse for it.'

Orthodoxy's 'dry drunks'

This article is free for all visitors. We need prophets in this confusing time, but the most effective ones manifest God's love. By Greg Erlandson, publisher

Openers: What goes into coming up with a winning editorial topic

This Openers column by John Norton has free access for all visitors. How we identify and flesh out a topic for our editorial

Openers: OSV is again an award-winning newspaper

By John Norton. A healthy-sized contingent from Our Sunday Visitor attended the Catholic Media Convention last month in Pittsburgh.

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Moving the laity into greater service of the Church

Of motes and men

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. What the fall of America's most prominent Catholic politician teaches about hypocrisy

Of Christian Fascists

The temptation of both left and right is to make some animals 'more equal' than others

Ode to a fallen giant

By Greg Erlandson. Uncle Frank saw it as his mission to introduce college students to his great love -- poetry

No. 2 meets Opryland

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone found much to appreciate in the Church in the United States

No parental safety net

The experience of sending off oldest to college was more problematic than parent expected

Marketing atheism lite

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Instead of wrestling with the questions of why, today's nonbelievers do the crossword puzzle

Letters to the Editor

This week's letters include a reactions to a book review, to Judith Sudilovsky's article about a mother in Jerusalem, to Greg Erlandson's 'Can you hear me now?' column, and more.

Let's weave a web of prayers for the pope's visit

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Lessons from a scandal

This article has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. LC founder's very human flaws teach us that our focus must be on Christ, not personalities.

Lefebvrist bishop is in denial

By Greg Erlandson. Rehabilitating traditionalist Catholics doesn't mean endorsing some of their wacko views. Free access for all visitors.

Kids and setting limits

Publisher Greg Erlandson muses on how Americans like to think that good intentions and sheer desire are enough to raise children.

Kennedy's book on Catholicism today is shallow

By Greg Erlandson. Testimonies of celebrity Catholics prompt the question: What did we do wrong?

It's not easy being purple

By Greg Erlandson. If we only talk about the 'other side,' instead of with it, we'll be stuck in a cultural apartheid

It's all relative

A trip to visit distant relatives brought forward a lesson on the Church Militant

It's all a mystery to me

The world in which we live is so intricately designed by man that we don't understand it

Is there a religious vocation in your family tree?

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In denial

Greg Erlandson Rehabilitating traditionalist Catholics doesn't mean endorsing some of their wacko views

In Catholic journalism, the world is our beat

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If I were a rich man

Philanthropists often abandon their business instincts when they ride to the Church's rescue.

Have you heard the latest? Gossip pervades culture

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Growing up Catholic

Raising our kids in the faith takes more than prayer: It also takes Catholic education, says publisher Greg Erlandson in his Spectator column.

Greg Erlandson: This year, I resolve ...

How to prevent the slow exhalation of New Year resolutions toward settling for the same old vices

Greg Erlandson: Buying into the scripts of premarital sex, cohabitation

Book exposes the lies we tell our young adults and ourselves about premarital sex and cohabitation

God loves diversity

By Greg Erlandson. St. Paul and early Christians remind us that in our infinite variety, we are all one in Christ

Getting facts straight

By Russell Shaw. Looking for reliable information about the clergy sex abuse crisis? Give these sources a try

Finding a space for families in the digital world

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Farewell to an American communicator in Rome

Farewell to an American communicator, John Foley, in Rome

Family campfire therapy

Family camping trip allows time to unplug, walk and talk, hold hands, tell stories and simply be.

Eve of the primaries

What's missing in this election season is healthy debate on the substantive issues

Enough is enough

The effort to change the rules on the statutes of limitations is the most blatant attack yet

Enough is enough

By Greg Erlandson. When apologies aren't sufficient, we must realize the Church can only share the burden

Egging on a controversy

Mepkin Abbey was simply a means to an end by a group that prizes animals over humans.

Education abroad

Pope, in message to Rome's teachers and students, easily could have been talking to U.S.

Editorial: Time on our side

This week's editorial focuses on the least-read book of the Bible: Revelation, and its implications for today.

Editorial: Cold Turkey?

The pope's scheduled trip to Turkey in light of the recent frenzy about his remarks on Islam is the subject of this week's editorial.

Eavesdropping on angst

A regretfully single professional woman counsels compromises. What about 'true' love?

Dream girls in 2-D

Free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. What does it mean for a society when 'grown' men fall in love with inanimate objects?

Don't put away those Easter decorations!

Let's make celebration something that lasts.

Dinosaur reflections

The rate of changes moves at lightning speed; can we and the slow-moving Church keep up?

Defenders of the faith existed years ago and today

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Date nights

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. If the president and first lady can spend time together, so can the rest of us married couples

Crazy after all these years

Six decades later, boomers still know it's all about them and continue to seek and search

Cost of Catholic College

By Greg Erlandson. The financial price tag doesn't match up with real need for religious identity on campuses

Confirmed in our faith

Defending Christianity is no longer just the province of missionaries in foreign countries

'Church in America must even now begin to rise!'

This issue has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Beyond the headlines, the pope called for renewal of the U.S. Church and American society by addressing crisis of faith

Cash cow: the Church

Profiteering taking place at the expense of both Church and victim is quite incredible

'Can you hear me now?'

Our Sunday Visitor Spectator column by publisher Greg Erlandson, who says that gratitude for foreign priests should lead us to pray for them as they adjust to the U.S.

Breaking the sugar bowl

OSV president and publisher returns to his biweekly column with thoughts on time off

Blah, blah, blog, blog

Is it a good thing that we have developed virtual and impersonal networks of contacts?

Being shallow now

Greg Erlandson Testimonies of celebrity Catholics prompt the question: What did we do wrong?

Beat of the new orthodox

Young people are harkening back to tradition, putting old truths to new rhythms and tunes

Autumn's fading notes

By Greg Erlandson. Season of falling leaves, plucked fruit affords us a chance to contemplate the march of time

Anti-religious Christians

A phenomenon exists where people cleave to "spirituality" and eschew "religion" altogether

Another papal surprise

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Pope's extraordinary letter challenges all Catholics to reflect on our own intolerance

Another one bites dust

A family values poll takes it on the chin. So what else is new in our fallen, human world?

Publisher Greg Erlandson says that while annual Christmas letters usually accentuate the positive in families, it's the conflicts and embarassments that make a family what it is -- a "work in progress."

An unexpected gift

By Greg Erlandson. An unplanned surgery teaches lessons in patience and humility this Christmas season

An inside job

By Greg Erlandson. Our best and brightest -- not illegals -- pushed us to the brink of financial disaster

After the Age of Aquarius

By Greg Erlandson. Forty years later, the do-it-yourself moral libertarianism of Woodstock survives

Advent on the precipice

By Greg Erlandson. Are we ready to make sacrifices -- spiritual and economic -- to get our house in order?

Abuse, nation's problem

When other major institutions expose their own records, our society may get serious

A time for prayer

By Greg Erlandson. In these difficult and divisive times, we Catholics need to live what we preach

A plea for stillness

Silent reverence of Christ's sacrifice matters more than good preaching or catchy music

A Message of Renewal and Hope

This article has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. Pope Benedict energized us, but where do we go from here?

A 'Catholic problem'

By Greg Erlandson. Obama and Democrats' abortion positions make it difficult for pro-lifers to support party

1968: Psychedelic experiences

This article has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. 1968, a turbulent year in U.S. history, also fostered idealism and activism. They were the grooviest of times, they were a total bummer....

"Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity

In Focus: Spring Books