On an average college day, I was in my dorm room praying a Rosary with a few friends when I… This post Distracted during prayer? Here are 5 tips to help you focus appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

A reader is wondering: “The Easter Gospel mentions the burial cloths that John and Peter found in the empty tomb. The passage makes a point that the cloth around Jesus’ head was separate from the rest. The Shroud of Turin seems to be one continuous cloth that covers his whole body, including the head. Please reconcile this apparent contradiction.” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope quickly explains this contradiction as well as expounds on the reasons to believe in the Shroud of Turin. This post Does the Shroud of Turin contradict Scripture? appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.

Over the last several weeks, various courts in the U.S. judicial system — including the Supreme Court — have issued rulings on the legality of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. Even for legal scholars, the decisions have been hard to follow. In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Elizabeth Kirk, director of the Center for Law and the Human Person at The Catholic University of America, clears up the confusion, writing that the plaintiffs in the case are claiming that the safety regulations used in the trial of the drug are not being put in place in real-world applications. Kirk writes: “If the plaintiffs are correct, and the FDA abused its legitimate authority and ignored science in such a way that endangers women, all of us — whatever our views on abortion — should be gravely concerned and eager for a full and fair hearing to take place in court.” This post Buyer beware: Women’s safety is a ke

Simcha Fisher interviews deacon and iconographer Charles Rohrbacher, who says these “windows of heaven” are images that proclaim the Gospel. And images and the Gospel are meant to go together. Deacon Rohrbacher says, “But each icon at its truest is the fruit of prayer.” He adds, “It’s done with love and prayer and intentionality of service, and out of that, at the end, there’s an icon.” The deacon said: “You don’t want to write slogans all over the windows to heaven. You want them to be clear so you can see Christ and Mary and the saints through the images.” This post Alaskan deacon proclaims the Gospel through icons appeared on Our Sunday Visitor.