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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.

Concert celebrates three-century connection between Maryland and France

April 17, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Feature, Local News, News

Opening with the national anthems of France and the United States, the Orchestre d’Harmonie de Saint-Omer (Saint-Omer Wind Orchestra) celebrated three centuries of shared history between the countries with a concert April 12 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

‘Infinite sadness’ marks the loss of grand Cathedral of Notre Dame

April 16, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary

I’ve visited the grand cathedral a few times since the late 1990s. It is an impressive place to visit and to pray.

Kittens and babies

April 11, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary

Some legislators – at the state and federal level – are so afraid of anything that acknowledges the humanity of an unborn child that they cannot imagine granting any kind of protection, even when it should be obvious.

Archbishop Lori: Church has many reasons to get right response to child sexual abuse

April 9, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, McCarrick Report, News, World News

A week into National Child Abuse Protection Month, Archbishop William E. Lori visited the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops chapel to celebrate midday Mass for employees of the conference to reflect on the church’s work to develop policies and procedures to prevent child abuse by those within the church.

‘Unplanned’ isn’t fun to watch, but it’s necessary viewing

March 28, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary, Respect Life

It’s an important movie that will challenge your thinking, even if you already consider yourself pro-life.

Hagerstown’s St. Maria Goretti High will move in fall

March 22, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Western Vicariate

St. Maria Goretti High School President Chris Cosentino announced to the school community at a meeting March 21 that the school will move in fall 2019 to a new campus, due to the current academic building sitting in a flood plain.

Archdiocese ends 2018 fiscal year with surplus

March 21, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Local News, News

The Archdiocese of Baltimore finished the 2018 fiscal year in better financial shape than the prior year, primarily because of improvements in the stock market, which especially helped recover some of the unfunded balance in the archdiocese’s retirement fund.

Archbishop Lori restricts ministry of Bishop Bransfield and Bishop Bennett in dioceses

March 11, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, News

Archbishop Lori has announced restrictions on the ministry of Bishop Michael J. Bransfield, retired bishop of Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, W.V., and Bishop Gordon D. Bennett, S.J., former auxiliary bishop of Baltimore and a former bishop of the Diocese of Mandeville, Jamaica.

‘Pea toast’ and other sacrifices

March 7, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Commentary, Lent

We fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstain from meat on the other Fridays of the season, but it’s not much of a sacrifice to splurge on lobster instead of beef as a Lenten meal.

Applications open for Archdiocesan Pastoral Council

March 4, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, News

In re-establishing an Archdiocesan Pastoral Council, Archbishop William E. Lori hopes the new group of lay advisers will be guided by the Holy Spirit and will help the Archdiocese of Baltimore evaluate “what are we doing right, what are we doing wrong, what have we not thought about,” according to Mary Ellen Russell, director of community relations.

Hundreds of Catholics visit state legislators

February 25, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, News

Catholics from throughout Maryland gathered in Annapolis Feb. 21 to learn about legislative issues and meet their lawmakers during an event sponsored by the Maryland Catholic Conference.

Maryland fetal homicide bill would enable murder charges for death of younger fetus

February 21, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

Mark Wallen spoke Feb. 21 at a news conference in Annapolis to promote Senate Bill 561/House Bill 757, also known as “Laura and Reid’s Law,” which would expand fetal homicide protections to as few as eight weeks’ gestation.

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