JD Vance to publish book exploring his conversion to Catholicism
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Vice President JD Vance will publish a new book this summer exploring his conversion to Catholicism as an adult, The Associated Press reported March 31. Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith will be published June 16, the HarperCollins Publishers imprint Harper told AP. HarperCollins is also the publisher of Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, a bestseller that helped raise his national profile. “The story of how I regained my faith, of course, only happened because I had lost it to begin with,” Vance, 41, said in a statement. “The interesting question that hangs over this book,…
‘Dog Day Afternoon’: Stephen Adly Guirgis revisits the iconic 1975 film
A single-set hostage drama needs to feel like a pressure cooker, but this “Dog Day Afternoon” has a comedic, almost casual tone throughout.
Praying through Holy Week, even when the sequence of events feels jumbled
A Reflection for Tuesday of Holy Week, by Zac Davis
Anarchist Catholicism: The Spiritual Wisdom of Dorothy Day
For the longest time, perhaps over a decade, I’ve been encouraging my good friend Robert Ellsberg, the publisher of Orbis Books, to write a book about the time he spent with Dorothy Day when he was a young college student.
Jesus’ outstretched hands on the Cross: an embrace—and a challenge
Jesus’ outstretched hands on the cross continue to inspire the compassionate embrace of others by his followers, although the endurance of that inspiration is being tested by some obstacles in today’s world.
Is there a Catholic revival? Pope Leo seems to think so.
While research points to skepticism regarding a possible Catholic “revival”—following years of steady decrease in the number of faithful as parents struggle to pass down the faith to the new generations—some recent data and reports from Catholic dioceses have suggested growth in some pockets of Catholicism worldwide.
Catholics express grief, warn of politicizing immigration issue in murder of Loyola student
Catholics in Chicago have expressed sympathy and sorrow over the death of a Loyola University Chicago student who was shot and killed March 19 near the school campus.
Pope Leo fills two crucial positions at the Vatican
Pope Leo XIV is continuing to build out his administration, and today, March 30, the Vatican announced two handpicked appointments to key positions.
Do Catholics listen to what popes say about war?
I am left to wonder if national identity leads many to put country before God, and to see papal teaching as pious sentiment rather than an authentic expression of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the world today.
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