Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) is a Catholic publishing company in Huntington, Indiana, which prints the American national weekly newspaper of that name, as well as numerous Catholic periodicals, religious books, pamphlets, catechetical materials, inserts for parish bulletins and offertory envelopes, and offers an "Online Giving" system and "Faith in Action" websites for parishes.
[1] Founded in 1912 by Fr John F. Noll, the newspaper Our Sunday Visitor was the most popular Catholic newsweekly of the twentieth century.
A column Noll started in 1912, called "Father Smith Instructs Jackson", was later collected into a popular book, which sold millions of copies.
The fortieth anniversary issue of Our Sunday Visitor, published on May 4, 1952, carried a banner headline that read, "They Do Not Want God in Our Schools: Secular Trend is Certain to Bring Disaster.
[4] As of 2019[update] the weekly newspaper is known as Our Sunday Visitor, and the editorial director for periodicals is Gretchen R. Crowe;[5] earlier it was known as OSV Newsweekly.
[7][8] In July 2022, the company announced plans to acquire the operations of Catholic News Service, which was set to close its US office at the end of the year.