Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference
Catholic schools in our inner-urban areas, like the new, state-of-the-art Mother Mary Lange School in Baltimore, are the most effective anti-poverty program the U.S. Church has ever devised — and they serve students from many religious backgrounds.
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Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference, War in Ukraine
Given the rubbish about Ukraine spewed out by Russian propaganda trolls and regurgitated by foolish or ideologically besotted Americans, this year’s annual Summer Reading List will focus on serious books that explain the background, including the religious dimension, of a conflict that will shape Europe’s future – and ours.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life, The Catholic Difference
A post-Roe America will be one in which the pro-life movement must work with state legislators to provide legal protection to unborn children.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference
“Besides the cradle in which our Lord, it is alleged, was rocked, is the stone manger of the grotto of Bethlehem. One of the stones of this manger is shown in the basilica of St. Maria Maggiore on the Esquiline, in the altar of the crypt of the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference
Parents and high school seniors making those tough college decisions would do well to look beyond the U.S. News and World Report college rankings and consider UD, Benedictine College, the University of Mary, Christendom College, Thomas Aquinas College, and other small Catholic liberal arts colleges.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Schools, The Catholic Difference
Today, inner-urban Catholic schools are a lifeline for children whose futures are being put at even greater risk by failing government schools and hidebound teachers’ unions that resist educational reform while engaging in various forms of ideological indoctrination.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference
Ryszard Kuklinski was a genuine hero of the long, twilight struggle against communist totalitarianism — the man who helped prevent a bloody Soviet invasion of Poland to crush the nascent Solidarity movement.
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Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Commentary, The Catholic Difference
It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but for native Baltimoreans of a certain vintage (like me) it is, was, and always will be “the Old Cathedral:” the first of its kind in the United States
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Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, The Catholic Difference
What happened on Easter Sunday was the most explosive experience in human history, shattering all previous expectations of human destiny.
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Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference
The first responsibility here lies with the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, who should do what Pope St. Clement I did with the rowdy Corinthians in the immediate post-apostolic period and what Pope St. Gregory the Great did with brother bishops during the age of the Fathers: call the German bishops back to the “faith which was once for all delivered to the saints”
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Filed Under: Commentary, Obituaries, The Catholic Difference
He rarely expressed doubts about anything; but he displayed a great sensitivity to the doubts and confusions of those who had the humility to confess that they were at sea.
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Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference
Teaching the truth of the Eucharist is thus a task for this moment, turning plague time into a time of renewed faith in the wonder of what we are offered in holy communion.
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