Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary
While economics largely drove the result of this election, we Catholics understand that many cultural and social issues are far more important than decreasing interest rates and controlling inflation.
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Filed Under: Commentary
We must reject the “wall of separation” as the formula for religious repression that it is.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life
Seventy-five years after its publication, and 40 years after its historical setting, 1984 has never been more accurate in its description of the increasing dystopia of American public life.
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Filed Under: Commentary
This theory of individual rights is not merely incompatible with the Christian doctrines of solidarity and common good, but contradictory to them.
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Filed Under: Commentary
“Death of a Salesman” has much to say to us Christians as we navigate the highways and backroads of our own moral lives.
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Filed Under: Advent, Commentary
The Magnificat is among the most theologically powerful speeches in the entirety of the New Testament.
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Filed Under: Books, Commentary
“The Christmas Carol” is only the most prominent of Dickens’s several Christmas stories, my favorite of which is “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home,” published on Dec. 20, 1845.
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Filed Under: Commentary
The Didache not only provides a fascinating glimpse of the liturgical and moral life of the early church, but also offers relevant guidance for every age, including our own.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News
June 2023 marks the 500th anniversary of one of the most cruelly ironic publications in the history of the Catholic Church, St. Thomas More’s “Response to Luther.”
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Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
The road to joy may be the path of suffering. Endo’s “Silence” is a brilliant account of that paradox, and perfect Lenten reading.
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