Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life
With the question of abortion now open for debate in America, women have a critical role in persuading men and women against taking the lives of their children.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary
Even though ours is a world focused on “living our truths” and “living our authentic selves,” it has become a world of performance.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary
I now consider the cry room a sanctuary within a sanctuary, a gift of which only compassionate and loving parent-architects could have conceived.
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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.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary
His life was enriched by a community that chose him, not the other way around. It took an investment of time — well more than a decade — to reap the benefits.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent
Perhaps it’s a blessing, then, that the church gives us Lent in midwinter. It’s a season of soul-searching; the gray skies give us no other choice but to turn inward and examine the dark spaces we’d rather not explore.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary
Inaugurations speak to our innate need to start over from time to time, to express new hopes and fears, to realign our priorities and make sure the path we’re walking on is the right one.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary
Gossip may be shared between two people, let’s say by a tweet and reply or a Facebook post on another person’s wall, but it is shared with the knowledge that both parties’ followers will see it. What is most pernicious is that it’s often shared not in spite of that knowledge but because of it.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Respect Life
A culture of life is always within reach and is built one moment and decision at a time.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary
The global phenomenon of imposed isolation provides an important moment to call to mind the many people who experience “social distancing” as a daily, lived reality — most often not of their choosing.
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Filed Under: Bible, Commentary, Guest Commentary
There is a special kind of humiliation (and humor, if you’re a good sport), reserved for pregnant women who skew a little bit above the average age of moms in this country.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary
A good comedian helps an audience to recognize common absurdities, inconsistencies and hypocrisies in any given cultural moment. Their real genius is helping audiences to recognize the ones in which they also take part.
