Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Dear President Trump: Heartbeat laws save unborn lives

President Trump is now on record saying that a 6-week abortion ban and similar heartbeat laws are a “terrible mistake,” but the facts reveal that strong pro-life laws are now saving unborn lives in record numbers. While Trump and many Republicans seek to distance themselves from the work of abolishing abortion, pro-lifers know that now […]

The Love of God: More Important Than Anything Else

In this episode of The Download, hosts Simon Rafe, Christine Niles and Bradley Eli talk about the virtue of charity, showing how it involves primarily loving God above all things and also loving one’s neighbor as oneself.

A Haunting in Venice

NEW YORK (OSV News) – “A Haunting in Venice” (20th Century) is the third in a series of Agatha Christie adaptations, all featuring her famed sleuth Hercule Poirot, on which director and star Kenneth Branagh has collaborated with screenwriter Michael Green. Yet, in at least two related respects, the newcomer is noticeably distinct from its […]

How to find serenity through the will of God…

Over the past few years, some Catholic publishers have reintroduced classic spiritual writings to a new generation. That is a tremendous gift. Today, when so many of us Catholics seem inordinately focused on temporal affairs like politics, there is a need to refocus on the Last Things — and this can be well accomplished through […]