In a reflection for Divine Mercy Sunday, OSV publisher Scott P. Richert writes that contemplating God as a God of both justice and mercy can seem paradoxical. He writes: “But God, of course, is constant ...
OSV publisher Scott P. Richert reflects on Palm Sunday to the foot of the Cross. A priest once said in his homily, “Some of those who greeted Christ with loud hosannas as he entered Jerusalem ...
OSV publisher Scott P. Richert examines the question the scribes and the Pharisees asked Jesus in John 8: “Who are you?” This Lent, Richert writes, we should all contemplate this question, as better understanding the ...
Our Sunday Visitor publisher Scott Richert writes about three books he is reading simultaneously: Wendell Berry’s “Hannah Coulter,” Walker Percy’s “The Message in the Bottle” and Owen Barfield’s “Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry.” ...
Since January 4, OSV publisher Scott P. Richert, along with thousands of other Catholic men across the United States and around the world, has been engaged in a spiritual exercise called Exodus 90. Designed to ...
Publisher Scott P. Richert recounts a previous experience in which he wrote about the murder of an abortionist, only to have a reader tell him that the Chuch should consider the killing to be justified, ...
Publisher Scott Richert writes that while there were many deaths that took place in 2020, “the greatest loss this year, though, was not that of a particular person, but the final passing away, after a ...
Many Catholics are surprised when they first learn that the celebration of Christmas came rather late, as feasts of Our Lord go, writes Scott Richert in his latest column. The feast of the Epiphany, on ...
Scott Richert shares why Christmas is his favorite holiday. While Easter is the greatest Christian feast because of Christ’s sacrifice for our salvation, everything about Christmas, namely the truth of the Incarnation, draws him more ...
Scott P. Richert, in the All Things New column, encourages Catholics not to take a political Manichaeism approach to politicians’ policies that dissent with Church teaching. Politicians have both good and bad ideas. He writes, ...
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