Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary, Question Corner
Catholics are called to vote according to their well-formed conscience so as to support the dignity of human life in all areas.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
The holy days of obligation you are actually bound to observe as a Catholic depend on what your local bishops’ conference (the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the United States) has decided to do.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
A Methodist Sunday service would not fulfill the Sunday obligation for a Catholic.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
While AI can share information on a given topic in perhaps a more accurate or more efficient way than would be possible for many humans, nothing can replace the value of a person-to-person relationship in evangelizing and handing on the faith.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments
As Catholic Christians we are called to approach all things in a spirit of patience and charity — including the issue of other Catholics’ liturgical preferences.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
We believe that all of nonhuman creation is ultimately meant to serve humanity, which is why we are permitted to kill animals for food and to meet other reasonable needs.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
We are truly and fully forgiven from our sins when we receive absolution after a good confession. However, sacramental absolution by itself doesn’t necessarily resolve all the consequences of our sins.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
The joy found in the paschal candle is actually a sign of the joy we find in the resurrected Christ, who brings light out of darkness.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
The crucifixion was a progressive event in time, not one static snapshot, so it would be reasonable for an artist to choose to portray any number of given points of this part of Jesus’ passion.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Respect Life
In more typical parish settings, perhaps the pro-life intention might be “hidden” and implicit rather than explicit and obvious in a given intercession.
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In our lives as Catholics, we are not only obligated and privileged to partake in the Eucharist, but we are also called to maintain communion with the body of Christ, which is the church, which is united visibly under the teaching authority of the Holy Father in Rome.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner
if you personally feel that Friday abstinence during Lent is not enough of a sacrifice to be spiritually beneficial for you, you are certainly free to incorporate another penitential practice in addition to abstinence on Fridays.
