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Your one-stop site for Year of the Priest resources

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Pope Benedict XVI has proclaimed a Year of the Priest starting June 19.

Winning Catholic Press Association awards

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. It is Catholic press awards season and Our Sunday Visitor did especially well this year.

Why we need to be 'as Catholic as the pope'

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Let's strive, on the Notre Dame controversy and all contentious issues, to be as Catholic as the pope.

Why this Lent is more important than usual

By John Norton. The Church needs all of us to take Lent especially serious this year. Free access for all visitors.

What vocations and Year for Priests means for you

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Every spring and fall, we publish a special section on priestly and religious vocations.

Trying to make sense of the pope's new encyclical

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. The long-awaited encyclical on social justice was released this week by Pope Benedict XVI.

Tortured logic: Catholic Americans on the basics

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Recent poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reveals U.S. Catholics views on torture

Top 10 reasons you should become a catechist

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. We can help pass on knowledge of the faith and love for Christ by being a catechist in our parish.

'Too little too late' on wage hike

Groups note that increasing wages is just a small step toward reducing the number of the nation's poor.

The urgency of supporting our country's fathers

Free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Society needs to reassess the importance of fathers for the physical, psychological, intellectual and spiritual wellbeing of the next generation.

The Ultimate Catholic Guide to the Digital World

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. This issue of the newspaper contains an updated Catholic Guide to the Internet.

The hot (and not) liturgical stories of the summer

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Even for those who are open to it, change is never easy. Greater familiarity with what is coming in regards to the liturgy will help ease the transition.

The front lines of medical care for the poor

In Focus article. By John Norton. Catholic president of historic medical college: 'Our students know they have a responsibility to their fellow man to go out and serve.'

Taking the pulse of the health of our churches

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Wondering how you can tell if your faith -- and the faith of your parish, and the faith of the broader Church -- is healthy?

Supporting Holy Land Catholics

In Focus article. By John Norton. Cardinal: 'We don't want the Holy Land to become merely a museum of biblical sites'

So, have you experienced any miracles lately?

Openers by John Norton

Sneaking a visit inside the Vatican Observatory

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. The Church played a significant role in the advance of astronomy.

Rules for handling disagreement like a Christian

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Rules to deal with the difference of opinion we find within the Church

Religion as an asset on the campaign trail?

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Refusing to surrender to fear

Openers by John Norton.

Reader feedback, announcement of improvements

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. In just a few weeks, we'll be unveiling a new and improved version of Our Sunday Visitor.

Questions for critics of priestly celibacy rules

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Living one vocation well and faithfully is challenging enough, without adding the unique challenges of another.

Pope calls special year to promote priestly holiness

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Just as the Year of St. Paul ends this June, the Church will start marking another special year -- a "Priestly Year."

Plotting some key elements of an ideal vacation

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Books are perfect for those vacation times when we've already stepped out of our usual routines.

Please help us help you -- and a special offer

Openers by John Norton. Free access for all visitors.

OSV readers are the best (And best-informed)

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Our Sunday Visitor is very fortunate to a have a large, loyal and engaged base of subscribers.

OSV does its part to offset its carbon footprint

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Care for and stewardship of the environment is a key part of the Catholic worldview.

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: Rekindled debate over religious habits and their benefits

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. In several corners of the Internet these days there’s an interesting debate on the pros and cons of habits for religious women (and men)

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.

New day in catechesis: OSV acquires Harcourt

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. This is big news, with potential for a major impact on the future of catechesis in this country.

New attacks on Church over clerical child abuse

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. If we are concerned about addressing child sex abuse, an exclusive focus on the Catholic Church is going to miss a majority of the instances.

New attacks on Church over clerical child abuse

New attacks on Church over clerical child abuse

Lessons on interreligious dialogue from a portly Egyptian sheik

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. The encounter drove home how many obstacles there are in efforts to promote better relations with other religions, including, and maybe especially, Islam.

Lessons learned at countless deathbeds

In Focus article. By John Norton. Former hospice volunteer says every adult needs a living will and health care surrogate

Lessons from a newly laid-off Catholic father

By John Norton. We're excited to introduce a new monthly column by a Catholic dad, Cory Busse. This article has free access for all visitors.

Inundated with Catholic mail solicitations?

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. It is critical to our mission to keep subscription fees as low as possible for our readers.

Introducing an easier-to-read, more attractive OSV paper

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. With today's newspaper, we unveil the new and improved design of Our Sunday Visitor.

Inspired to sanctity by a real-life battlefield hero

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Father Vincent Capodanno, the Vietnam War chaplain, can serve as an inspiring example of priestly self-sacrifice for all priests, wherever the Lord calls them to serve.

How to make full use of an OSV subscription

Free access for all visitors. By John Norton. One of the fringe benefits of an OSV subscription is complete free access to our digital archive of stories.

How to get the most out of this Lenten season

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How to become a 'steward of providence.' Really

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Stewardship was one of God's first charges to humanity, recounted in the earliest chapters of Genesis.

Gift for a Christmas season during troubled times

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Getting out of comfort zone lets us test assumptions

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Fostering a culture of life in a time of uncertainty

This article has free access for all visitors. In his Openers column, OSV Newsweekly editor, John Norton talks about our annual Respect Life issue.

Following Pope Benedict to the 'ends of the earth'

Openers by John Norton

Expecting to be surprised by God on vacation

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. We should expect to be surprised by God in our daily lives.

Dioceses taking action to combat the spread of swine flu

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. The most common steps are suspending Communion from the cup and discouraging shaking hands.

Digest this: 'Fasting satisfies your deepest hunger'

Openers by John Norton. Pope Benedict XVI released his message to Catholics for Lent -- and it has a strong focus on fasting.

Defibrillating our nation's health care reform

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. What is one to make of the fierce wrangling in Washington, D.C. in the crafting of a health care reform bill?

Committing to the best in Catholic journalism

Openers column by new OSV Newsweekly editor John Norton.

Catholics' efforts to overcome culture of death

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Catholic professor: Consumers suffocated by credit card debt

By John Norton. More than bankers' abusive or deceptive practices, Catholic economist says real problem is American addiction to immediate consumption

Catholic efforts to generate an authentic feminism

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. The "new feminism" continues to find fresh proponents and thinkers, including here in the United States.

Catholic civic duty in time of national transition

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Book reveals Mother Teresa's 'secret fire'

This article has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Setting the record straight on one of the world's best-known women

An experience of authentic Catholic health care

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. In this country, Catholic health care is at a crossroads.

Almsgiving: missing piece of the 'Lenten triad'

Free access for all visitors. By John Norton. With the current state of the U.S. and global economy, we don't have to look that hard to find opportunities for almsgiving.

A snapshot of America's priesthood class of 2009

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. Highlights of USCCB survey of the men who will be ordained priests this year in our country.

A new landmark moment for U.S. Catholicism?

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. The Notre Dame controversy is emblematic of a tension in the U.S. Catholic Church that dates back at least a century

A Lenten poll of Catholics' confessional practices

By John Norton. What is your preference...screened or face-to-face confession? Free access for all visitors.

A Catholic audacity of hope for country's future

Openers by John Norton