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World Cup lessons

For some countries, the World Cup offers a break from civil strife to rally around their team.

With 'eyes of hope'

Christ is risen and he is alive among us. It is he who is the hope of a better future.

Why river 'ordinations' were not valid

Editorial comments on "progressive" Catholics and the invalidity of river ordinations.

Whither reform?

Editorial: Current immigration law by all reports is broken.

War and peace

may not have surprised anyone with his World Day of Peace message, but the points he raises are well worth our reflection.

Torture intolerance

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Torn asunder

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Working for unity is an essential Catholic call, starting in families and parishes.

Tiller's killer

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Tiller's assassination -- in a church of all places -- is a blasphemy against the pro-life cause

The final score

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. One can hope that President Obama's words at Notre Dame indicate an openness of heart and a willingness to change on pro-life issues.

The cult of the busy

Working too hard is different from hard work.

The bottom line

Editorial: The economic consequence of the immigration policy is an open question, and people of good faith can argue for either side.

The allure of war

The allure of war is fogging our vision and clouding our memories.

Teaching the faith

The most pressing need in Catechisis is solid, systematic formation in the foudational teachings and principles of the faith

Super game plans

Super Bowl coaches Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith don't thump their Bibles, but they do give God the glory and are not afraid to grant him proper public mention.

Successful sanctity

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. What distinguishes saints is their life purpose: They wanted to be saints.

Stranger in the pew

The challenge we face, however, is to see Christ in them rather than to see them as a hindrance to being with Christ

Slam the slammer

This editorial article has free access for all visitors. The treatment of prisoners is a respect-life issue.

Sins of Celebrities

Talk around the office on the Sins of Celebrities

Shedding leaves

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Selective outrage

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. What if Roman Polanski wore a Roman collar?

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. By the OSV Editorial Staff. Barack Obama's March 9 executive order lifting limitations on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research puts our nation on a path that threatens not just embryos, but you, too.

Saddam's end

In OSV's editorial, we pause to consider the hanging death of Saddam and the altruistic legacy of former President Ford.

Reforming reform

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. As the debate over the best way to craft a health care reform bill rages on, it's a good idea to step back from abstract principles to remind ourselves of their real-life implications.

Reclaiming the 'Lost Generation'

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Racism residue?

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Our neighbors are much more thant that -- they are family.

Race and abortion

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Pull down the prince

Pro-life optimism

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The pro-life vision, ultimately, reflects the generosity and promise of our nation to protect those most marginalized

Pro-life economics

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Principles, not prizes

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The Church articulates principles that should govern all nations and all leaders.

President Obama

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Praying for peace

Editorial: 'Praying for Peace'

Political poverty

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Paradox of Lean

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Our Takes

Editorial comments on the film that started the revolution and undercover journalism in the confessional.

Our papal visitor

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Oregon's solution

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Tenderness leads to the gas chambers when costs need to be controlled

Onward, soldiers

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On our conscience

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Not a Bible-free zone

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No nukes

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Catholics, fortified by the virtue of hope, must keep focused on the vision of a nuclear-free world.

New Jersey's surprise

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Mother of revolutions

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Mending marriage

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Couples themselves, with the support of communities, including the parish, must do the heavy lifting.

Meaning of 'support'

Reach out to returning soldiers and those in veterans' hospitals to help ease their psychological and physical transition from combat duty to civilian life.

Loving the alien

All the sides in the debate over immigration policy agree that comprehensive reform of the system is needed.

Living the season

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. ‘The protection of creation demands the adoption of lifestyles that are sober and responsible, especially toward the poor and future generations.’

It's not just a game

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It is only natural

Twenty years after Donum Vitae, what the Church feared has come to pass.

In Pursuit of Paul

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Imposing ideology?

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How do we respond?

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Hope for the family

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Helping the helpers

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Got it wrong, again

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Gospel vs. greed

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Glory be to the Rock, and to the Cornerstone

Brief editorial comments and observations on current news.

Glad You Asked: The Push for Polygamy

Paul Thigpen's column concerning the nature of marriage and the Church's teaching on its sacredness.

Freedom to object

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For the children

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Five years later

Perhaps the biggest lesson that the church is still learning is transparency.

First, self-knowledge

Unless we know our own teachings, we will not be able to answer the most basic questions about what we have in common.

Finding the answers

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Feeding Body, Soul

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The family meal remains more an ideal than reality for most busy families.

Family matters

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Faltering fatherhood

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Failing grade

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'Face of the other'

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The U.S. bishops latest legislative push, is for comprehensive federal immigration reform.

Eucharist as charity

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Ends of the earth

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Embryonic ethics

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Embracing assent

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Election 2006

The Bishops and Pastors must make every effort to seize this moment and communicate the fullness of the Catholic social vision.

Editorial: Which way to exit?

"To surge or not to surge" is not necessarily the critical question in President Bush's new Iraq strategy. Making a "responsible transition" and rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure to meet the needs of the Iraqi people is our foremost obligation.

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: The paper chase

This week's editorial addresses the problems surrounding the formal documentation of immigrants.

Editorial: Swinging Saddam

Editorial by OSV Staff. The Catechism teaches that the Church 'does not exclude recourse to the death penalty,' but rather allows it on one very grave condition.

Editorial: Pluck of the Amish

This week's editorial covers two topics: 1) The message of hope and forgiveness of the Amish after the terrible Pennsylvania school shooting and 2) the revelations of former Rep. Mark Foley.

Editorial: Our new veterans

By the OSV Editorial Board. This Veterans Day, it would be worthwhile for Catholics to reflect on the human toll of war, and to ask ourselves what we are doing for those who have served our country.

Editorial: Nuclear arms club

By OSV Editorial Board. What was once unthinkable and the stuff of nightmares may now become first thinkable, then a viable military alternative.

Editorial: New saint's legacy

Editorial by OSV Editorial Board. The legacy of our new saint, Mother Theodore Guerin.

Editorial: Liturgical lessons

This week's editorial is free for all visitors. Providing , or denying, mass in the Tridentine Rite will not in itself alone solve all problems of dwindling Mass attendance and Catholic inaction.

Editorial: His tragic legacy

The late Father Robert F. Drinan baptized by example the pro-choice political positions of a generation of Catholic legislators.

Editorial: Helping the homeless

This week's editorial from the OSV editorial board: Greg Erlandson, Msgr. Owen F. Campion, Beth McNamara, Gerald Korson, Joyce Duriga, and Sarah Hayes.

Editorial: Health care for all?

Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly Editorial on health care for all

Editorial: Empty pulpits

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. We are fast approaching a time when we must ask ourselves what we can do to help the Church

Editorial: Cooling the hatred

This column is free for all visitors. The editorial for the week of July 15, 2007. Gaza's present troubles create one more flashpoint for an already enflamed Middle East.

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.

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Remembering our commitment to respect for the dignity of human life, from conception to natural death.

Economic optimism

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Easter Sunday 2007

In our most difficult moments, are we an easter people?

Easter people

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. 'Make us Easter people, men and women of light, filled with the fire of Your love.'

Don't fence me out

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Defending discourse

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Death sentence

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Dead on arrival?

In the wake of the Iraq Study Group Report, our editorial laments the lack of consensus and direction on the U.S. endgame in Iraq.

Cracked foundation

We admire Warren Buffett's philanthropic instincts, but we wish he had made better, more ethical choices about how to distribute his wealth.

Continent of hope

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Highlights of Pope Benedict's trip to Africa.

Committing to the best in Catholic journalism

Openers column by new OSV Newsweekly editor John Norton.

Church as scapegoat

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. In any society, the Church has a duty to speak out on behalf of its principles.

Christmas Hope

This article has free access for all visitors. The arrival of God's son, born amid animals and their feed, is when true hope arrives in our world.

Charity in truth

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Here are some key take-aways from Pope Benedict XVI's new encyclical on social justice.

Catholics gone wild?

To use one's leisure time for extended outrach to the needy is an expression of Christian stewardship.

Catholic schooling

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Cardinal for Sunbelt

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Cardinal conscience

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Busting myths about Church and science

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Even Catholics have been known to harbor lingering suspicions that the myth bears some truth.

Bullying the pulpit

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. We are witnessing a disturbing willingness, even from those who profess ecclesial fidelity, to bully the bishops.

Brothers in Christ

The Christian life demands that men connect with and support one another in the larger faith community.

Book bust

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Bold pastoral move

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The Church is more diverse than most Catholics are aware.

Bioethical precipice

Editorial - The Church must make bioethical education for ordinary Catholics a priority.

Becoming Benedictine

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Are we mainstream?

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Are we ceding to secularism?

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Apparition has some official support

Editorial comments and observations on the news.

Apocalyptical anxiety

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing.

Anxiety antidote

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Feeling anxious about the economy or the direction our country is taking?

An infant God

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After the celebration

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Abuse accountability

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Abortion elephant

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The strategy robs the country of any sort of substantive discussion of abortion.

Abortion acrimony

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Abortion has become a wedge dividing American Catholics in an increasingly contentious and politicized debate.