Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic social teaching has widely been described as “the church’s best kept secret.” A recent report indicates that may still be the case, and that efforts to spread it may be thwarted by a reduction in diocesan positions dedicated to social action.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
As the Synod on Synodality opened Oct. 4 in Rome, among the most closely watched topics under discussion is the question of whether the Catholic Church can or will extend the permanent diaconate — restored after the Second Vatican Council — to women.
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How the church equips Catholics to carry out this mission to preach the Good News of Jesus Christ is a concern for the Oct. 4-29 gathering of bishops convened by Pope Francis in Rome — often called the “synod on synodality.”
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Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News
Like the WPA, the American Climate Corps was created by an executive order of the president, after it initially faced funding-based opposition when included in early versions of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Biden has credited the measure with lowering energy costs, increasing energy security, creating new jobs and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News
After 146 days on strike, the Writers Guild of America — the labor union representing film, television, radio and online media writers — reached a tentative deal Sept. 24 with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, the organization that negotiates on behalf of Hollywood’s largest production companies.
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Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News
The U.N. described the Climate Ambition Summit as “a broad global coalition of ‘movers and doers'” including “politicians, business and civil society” that represents a “critical political milestone for demonstrating that there is collective global will to accelerate the pace and scale of a just transition to a more equitable renewable-energy based, climate-resilient global economy.”
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News
For those who have never heard Mother Teresa’s famous “Gospel on five fingers,” simply imagine the petite and wizened founder of the Missionaries of Charity counting out these words on the digits of a hand — your hand: “You. Did. It. To. Me.”
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Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News
The Norbertines — one of the oldest surviving religious orders in the Catholic Church, established in France in 1120 — are not only, in the words of their founder St. Norbert of Xanten, “prepared for every good work.”
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
When California in 2021 relaxed its physician-assisted death rules — easing access to the lethal means for residents to take their own lives — several lawmakers behind the change cited a desire to aid the terminally ill, invoking a sort of legislative altruism.
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With coronavirus-era eviction protections expiring across the country and rent payment waivers not far behind, the already-precarious situation of many low-income Americans is about to get worse.
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Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News
The recently released cinema biopic “Oppenheimer” dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb which then led to the dropping of two such bombs over Japan in the twilight days of World War II.
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Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Saints, World News
Clouds of incense billowed throughout the crypt as the priests in golden vestments celebrated Solemn Mass, according to “Divine Worship: The Missal”, which provides the form of the Mass for the Catholic Church’s personal ordinariates for the Anglican tradition.
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