Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News
The idea for veteran Catholic author Russell Shaw’s latest book actually originated about 30 years ago.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
On Nov. 28, 2020, when Pope Francis elevated 13 new cardinals from around the world — including Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, the archbishop of Washington — the pontiff reminded them of the importance of remaining as “a pastor close to your people.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
When Patricia Eze jokes, “I have a full house,” she is not talking about a poker hand. On June 25, 2020, she delivered quintuplets at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland Catholic Conference, Maryland General Assembly, News, Obituaries
Retired Maryland State Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. – who had been the country’s longest-serving state senate president – died Jan. 15 at the age of 78 at his home in Chesapeake Beach from complications from prostate cancer.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Celebrating a livestreamed Mass for the community of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington Jan. 13, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory noted how sometimes the readings of the day “fit our lives so perfectly.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Seeing the U.S. Capitol building being stormed by a rioting mob Jan. 6 brought a visceral reaction from Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, a Republican from Nebraska. Fortenberry, who is Catholic and often attends daily Mass at St. Peter’s Church on Capitol Hill, called the attack a “desecration.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News
The Archdiocese of Washington has petitioned the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to lift the 50-person cap on indoor religious gatherings in D.C.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
The church is near the cradle of U.S. Catholicism, a few miles from St. Clement’s Island, where Jesuit Father Andrew White celebrated the first Mass in the English-speaking colonies March 25, 1634, after colonists from England made landfall there.
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Catholic News Service
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On a day of history for the U.S. Catholic Church, Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory — who four hours earlier had learned Pope Francis had named him a cardinal — celebrated his first Mass as a cardinal-designate Oct. 25 at Holy Angels Church in Avenue in Southern Maryland.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Consistory, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Cardinal-designate Wilton D. Gregory, installed as Washington’ s archbishop in May 2019, thanked Pope Francis “with a very grateful and humble heart” for naming him as one of 13 new cardinals Oct. 25.
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Filed Under: Coronavirus, Local News, News, Racial Justice
Josephite Father Frank Martin Hull and Father Joseph John McKinley, who both had lived at the Josephite Senior Residence in Washington.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
The Archdiocese of Washington expressed disappointment that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s prohibition of religious advertising did not violate the First Amendment.
