RADIO INTERVIEW: Lenten Spirituality March 7, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Radio Interview Lent is a great time to grow in your faith and deepen your relationship with Christ. George Matysek talks with Paul and Sarah Jarzembowski about practical ways of making this Lent a time of spiritual growth.
Cardinal joins Biden, and later Archbishop Gudziak, in praying for Ukraine March 3, 2022By Mark Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, War in Ukraine, World News As Pope Francis and Catholics throughout the world did on Ash Wednesday, March 2, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory prayed and expressed solidarity with the people of Ukraine as they are enduring a brutal Russian military invasion of their country.
World will be a better place if we dispense with the discouraging word February 26, 2022By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Feature, Lent There’s many a day I’d like to be “home on the range” so as to escape the proliferation of discouraging words that besets us.
Five things to know about Lent February 24, 2022By Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News Father T. Austin Murphy Jr., pastor of Christ the King in Glen Burnie, answers five commonly asked questions as we prepare for the season of Lent, which begins March 2.
How Tom Brady can inspire our Lenten discipline February 10, 2022By Elise Italiano Ureneck Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent, Sports What we choose to do for our Lenten disciplines should help us make incremental progress toward holiness.
Virtual closeness, real community: Pope’s ministry flourished online March 25, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis, his liturgy office and his communications team made very deliberate decisions over the past year with the goal of letting people experience how close the pope was to them in their isolation and suffering.
Jesus wasn’t just good, he is God, papal preacher says March 12, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News Plenty of non-Christians believe that Jesus was a real person and that what he taught can make the world a better place, but what makes a person a Christian is believing that Jesus is God, said the preacher of the papal household.
Hope, after the long, long Lent March 10, 2021By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Commentary, Coronavirus, Lent It will take months, perhaps the rest of the year, to get to the point where enough people have been vaccinated that everything can return to normal – or a new normal. It will be exceedingly good to get back to Mass and the sacraments, resume gatherings with friends and families, and participate in parish activities and in-person classes.
Doing the impossible March 4, 2021By Father Ed Dougherty, M.M. Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Light One Candle, Saints It is freeing to abandon our cares to God and focus on the necessary tasks that have been put before us.
The fish-stick dilemma March 4, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Lent, The Domestic Church As we focus on growing closer to Jesus, may we carve out time and opportunities to walk with him in joy. If that happens to include fish sticks for dinner, let me know what time I should be there.
Washing dishes for Lent March 4, 2021By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window We are blessed to have dirty dishes to wash.
Homebound, Operation CRS Rice Bowl nonetheless raises awareness of hunger March 2, 2021By Mary K. Tilghman Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 37 parishes are participating in Catholic Relief Service’s Operation Rice Bowl this year.
