Bishop Hying Column

Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: Consider what sports can teach us about Christian community and the practice of faith
Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: Reading - a reminder that each human life is a drama of grace and sin, opportunity, limitation
Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: Death is our most creative act; the ultimate gift of self to God and others
Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: Liturgy of the Hours, a way to prayerfully mark our lives by lifting minds, hearts to God
Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: See Lent as an opportunity to live in greater peace and reconciliation with others
Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: Cross imbues our experience of suffering with light of the Risen Christ
Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: Religious apprenticeship: A handing on the faith as it has been handed on to us
Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: The Church never tires of prophetically proclaiming that every human life matters
Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: Through the Church, God reaches out and saves us from the abyss of despair and loneliness
Tyler Perkins with Villanova's men's basketball team dribbles the ball during a preseason exhibition game Oct. 22, 2026. Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams will open the college season in Rome Nov. 1. (OSV News photo/Villanova Athletics)
COLUMN: U.S. remains a nation of immigrants seeking same blessings and opportunities as ancestors