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Christopher Gunty

A Chicago-area native, Christopher Gunty is associate publisher/editor of Catholic Review Media. He also serves as a host of Catholic Review Radio.
He has spent his whole professional career in Catholic journalism as a writer, photographer, editor, circulation manager and associate publisher. He spent four years with The Chicago Catholic; 19 years as founding editor and associate publisher of The Catholic Sun in Phoenix, Ariz.; and six years at The Florida Catholic. In July 2009, he came to Baltimore to lead The Cathedral Foundation, now Catholic Review Media.

Chris served as president of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada from 1996 to 1998, and has traveled extensively learning about and reporting on the work of the church, including Hong Kong, Malaysia, Haiti, Poland, Italy, Germany and finally in 2010 visited the Holy Land for the first time.

Annual Appeal aims to raise $8.2 million for ministries

April 27, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Appeal, Feature, Giving, Local News, News

The 2023 Annual Appeal for Catholic Ministries has received 12,356 gifts or pledges, bringing the total committed to more than $5.6 million, more than two-thirds toward a goal of $8.2 million.

Theologian emphasizes empathy at Catholic Charities symposium

April 25, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Social Justice

As Catholic Charities of Baltimore continues to celebrate its 100th anniversary, the organization sponsored its first social justice symposium April 20 in person at Church of the Nativity in Timonium and livestreamed to six additional satellite locations.

Maryland attorney general acknowledges that church has changed response

April 7, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: 2023 Attorney General's Report, Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, News

“(I)t is accurate to say that the abuse that we discovered and uncovered pre-dates the current leadership in the Archdiocese and they are offenses that occurred in the ’40s, ’50s, ’60s and through the ’80s, some maybe as recently as the ’90s,” Brown said.

Archbishop Lori saddened, shamed and sickened by abuse in the church

April 5, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: 2023 Attorney General's Report, Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, News

Archbishop Lori said that as he read the report, “just as a pastor of souls and as a Catholic, I felt deep sadness. I felt shame. I felt sickened by the report, and I had to ask myself how could this have happened in the life of the church and how could it have gone on so long?”

Attorney General report: ‘a heartbreaking and new reminder of a tragic and shameful time’

April 5, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: 2023 Attorney General's Report, Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, News

In a pastoral letter in response to the release of a redacted version of the Maryland Attorney General’s report “Clergy Abuse in Maryland: Report on the Investigation of the Archdiocese of Baltimore,” Archbishop William E. Lori said it serves “as a heartbreaking and new reminder of a tragic and shameful time.”

Communion under both kinds returns in Archdiocese of Baltimore

April 5, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Easter, Feature, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments

The Archdiocese of Baltimore will reinstitute the reception of Communion under both species on Holy Thursday of the Lord’s Supper, April 6.

Chrism Mass brings together Catholics for oils, affirmation of priesthood

April 4, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments

More than 1,000 joined the celebration – including more than 140 priests, 70 deacons and 60 seminarians and candidates for the permanent diaconate.

Changes to confession and absolution coming this Lent

February 22, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments

As part of a multiyear project to better render the Mass and other liturgical rites into English from Latin, a slight change in the prayer of absolution will be made.

Seminary formation returns to its Baltimore roots on Paca Street

January 17, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

The site of the first seminary in the United States will be home to a new program for those discerning a vocation to the priesthood when a regional house of formation opens at St. Mary’s on Paca Street.

Catholic Charities marks centenary of serving those in need

January 15, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News

It is nearly impossible to look at any place where people are struggling within Baltimore City and the nine counties that comprise the Archdiocese of Baltimore – the impact of poverty, violence, poor health care, lack of education, addiction – and not see the presence of the archdiocesan charities agency.

MCC to address life, education and other issues in ’23 session

January 12, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland General Assembly, News

Maryland Catholic Conference Executive Director Jenny Kraska noted that – even with a new governor and new legislators – many of the same topics the church addresses perennially will be on the legislative agenda in 2023.

Archbishop Lori call’s Pope Benedict’s funeral ‘noble simplicity’

January 5, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican

Among the more than 50,000 people in St. Peter’s Square Jan. 5 for the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, who said the subdued nature of the liturgy was at the request of the retired pontiff, the first to resign the papacy in more than 600 years.

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