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The humbling weirdness of God at work in the world

1 day ago | oursundayvisitor.com | David Mills

But there’s a problem with rolling your eyes. Catholicism has its own versions of this kind of thing, and they probably don’t seem very different to a religious outsider. Dust eating, for example. Lucile Hasley was a popular Catholic writer in the late 1940s and ’50s.
Malta and the Jubilee: A quieter pilgrimage of hope

3 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Daniel Esparza |Jean Pierre Fava

Among these is the Church of St. Paul at the Three Fountains — associated with Paul’s martyrdom — and a symbolic point of connection to Malta, where his journey to Rome first paused. Unlike the broad ceremonial routes of Rome, Malta offers pilgrims a different kind of sacred journey.
Are Jewish marriages valid to the Catholic Church?

3 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Jenna Cooper

For context, it is important to note that Judaism encompasses a wide range of beliefs and practices — similar to how “Christianity” is a big category that includes Protestants, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Evangelicals and even more unique groups like the Amish.
The Acts of the Apostles and 'The Amazing Race'

4 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Jaymie Stuart Wolfe

For me, “The Amazing Race” has almost everything I’m looking for in entertainment: travel, adventure, culture, competition, a pinch of relationship drama and even virtue. Skydiving in Dubai and bungee jumping in a 400-foot New Zealand gorge, after all, requires courage. But completing an exhausting series of roadblock and detour tasks before checking into each pitstop is a serious test of perseverance and hope.
A pope for our time

4 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Scott Richert

John Paul II went on to become one of the longest reigning popes in the history of the Church, long enough for me to have graduated from elementary school, junior high, high school, college and graduate school, and to be 10 years into my professional career before his years of suffering — through which he gave such a perfect example to Catholics and all Christians — came to an end.
A flame is just beginning

6 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Greg Kandra

June 8, 2025 – Pentecost SundayActs 2:1-11Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 341 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 OR Rom 8:8-17Jn 20:19-23What they soon realize is something we have known all along: the message of Jesus — the teachings of the Gospel, the Good News of healing and faith, restoration and salvation — knows no barriers. It transcends language. It touches everyone. And this day we are reminded that it does so with an unquenchable fire. It’s useful to look back through Scripture and see where else flames appear.
Proclaiming Christ in the Eucharist with St. Paul

6 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Michael R. Heinlein

Paul’s experience with the risen Christ on the road to Damascus led to the conversion of this one-time persecutor of Christians. That encounter Paul had with Christ was so real, in his view, it was no different than the encounters Christ had with the Twelve while in their midst.
The logic of love

1 week ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe

The bishops of each ecclesiastical province decide whether to transfer the solemnity. Here in New York, it remains firmly planted forty days after Easter (exactly where Scripture locates it, I might add). Those forty days mirror the forty of Lent: preparation gives way to celebration, and celebration now yields to expectation as the Church begins the original novena, nine intense days of prayer between Ascension and Pentecost. Why does the date matter?
Remember Christ's compassion, show compassion to others

1 week ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Cindy Wooden

And after days of Russia increasing its attacks on Ukraine, killing civilians and destroying infrastructure, the pope assured the Ukrainian people of his “closeness and my prayers for all the victims, especially the children and families.”“I strongly renew my appeal to stop the war and support every initiative of dialogue and peace,” he said.
Does a married person need their marriage blessed or 'convalidated' once they become Catholic?

1 week ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Jenna Cooper

Still, marriage as an institution is as old as humanity itself and as such predates Jesus’ time on earth. Consequently, a person does not need to be Catholic or even Christian to have a valid marriage, provided that in their matrimonial consent they committed themselves to a union that would broadly match our Catholic understanding of marriage: namely, as a permanent, faithful, and exclusive union ordered fundamentally towards children and family life.