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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.

Independent group lauds Archdiocese of Baltimore’s financial transparency

December 8, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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, 2020
By 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.

Rights and responsibilities

September 9, 2020
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Commentary, Coronavirus

If each and every person takes responsibility for wearing a mask, social distancing and washing their hands frequently, we can make a difference.

Misa de Ordenación del Obispo Lewandowski evoca a los santos Redentores

August 26, 2020
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: En Español

Las vidas y la espiritualidad de los Redentores jugaron un papel en la Misa de Ordenación del Obispo Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., miembro del orden religioso internacional cuyo fundador les instruyó a sus compañeros que deberían de negarse a honores o rangos episcopales más altos.

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