MCC watching bills as Maryland legislative session opens Jan. 13 January 12, 2021By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland General Assembly, News The staff of the Maryland Catholic Conference will find it a little more difficult to work with legislators in Annapolis as the 2021 session of the General Assembly opens Jan. 13.
2020 in the rearview December 31, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Commentary, Journalism Even with the many challenges of a difficult year, the Catholic Review accomplished great things in 2020.
Independent group lauds Archdiocese of Baltimore’s financial transparency December 8, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Fiscal Services, Local News, News Voice of the Faithful, an independent group of lay faithful, released its fourth annual survey of financial transparency by dioceses in the U.S., with the Archdiocese of Baltimore one of only five in the country to earn a perfect score of 100 in the 2020 review.
The soul of a nation December 1, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: 2020 Election, Behind the Headlines, Commentary Politics doesn’t have to be unfriendly and confrontational. We can be so much better than that.
Archbishop Lori celebrates Mass of thanksgiving for Father McGivney’s beatification November 24, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Archbishop's Ministry, Baltimore Basilica, Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News, Saints Archbishop William E. Lori celebrated Mass Nov. 24 in the chapel of St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore in thanksgiving for the beatification of Father Michael J. McGivney, an alumnus of the seminary, the oldest in the United States.
Radio fundraiser features giant puzzle of Baltimore basilica’s Mary November 24, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Feature, Local News, News Radio station WMET 1160 AM – the local affiliate of the Guadalupe Radio Network, serving parts of Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia – launched a new fundraiser that features a massive puzzle featuring the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven.
El Arzobispo Lori agradece a las víctimas por presentarse en el caso McCarrick November 12, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: En Español, Hispanic Ministry El Arzobispo de Baltimore, William E. Lori, reconoció el dolor evidente en el informe que el Vaticano hizo público ayer sobre el caso de Theodore E. McCarrick, ex Arzobispo de Washington y cardenal, quien renunció al Colegio de Cardenales en 2018 y fue laicizado en 2019.
Are we all neighbors? November 11, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Commentary In his new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship,” the pope addresses the ways the world has been divided and how certain trends hinder the development of universal fraternity.
Archbishop Lori thanks victim-survivors for coming forward in McCarrick case November 10, 2020By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Feature, Local News, McCarrick Report “While the release of the report brings us to another moment of painful awareness of our Church’s past failures, it also marks a new era of transparency in our Church, which the lay faithful have rightly demanded,” Archbishop Lori
Archbishop Lori will assist at Father McGivney’s beatification Oct. 31 October 26, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News, Radio Interview With Venerable Father Michael McGivney, the parish priest who founded the Knights of Columbus in 1882, to be beatified Oct. 31 at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Hartford, Conn., Archbishop William E. Lori was looking forward to witnessing history and honoring the man he referred to as “the parish priest of my soul.”
Racism town halls call all to action October 7, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Black Catholic Ministry, Commentary, Racial Justice Whatever the color of your skin, if you want to be part of the solution, a good place to start would be to participate in the town hall Oct. 26. Vote Nov. 3. And then take action in your community to make things better.
Oils blessed, promises renewed at delayed chrism Mass September 15, 2020By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Divine Worship, Feature, Local News, News Clergy and some lay faithful gathered Sept. 14 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland to participate in the chrism Mass at which Archbishop William E. Lori blesses sacramental oils used in parishes and where priests of the diocese traditionally renew their promises.