Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Knights of Columbus
Father Michael J. McGivney was just one more of that band of hardworking Irish-American priests who spent themselves building up the church in America in the latter years of the 19th century. But in one truly extraordinary respect, he was unique:
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
Like words for a poet, color for a painter and sound for a composer, time is everybody’s medium for shaping a life devoted to loving and serving God and neighbor.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Saints, World News
Mother Cabrini is the subject of “Cabrini,” a new film from Angel Studios directed by Alejandro Monteverde scheduled for nationwide release March 8.
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Filed Under: Books, Commentary
Flannery O’Connor was not an evangelist. She was an artist, one of the most gifted American fiction writers of the 20th century. But a profoundly Catholic theological vision informs her art, giving her stories resonance and depth that sound deep — and sometimes deeply disturbing — spiritual chords.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
As the flurry of distressed reactions to this declaration reminds us, the Catholic vision of marriage, family life, and human sexuality exists in a secular environment that regards the faith with profound hostility.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Synodality
The synod’s more immediate goal was the less dramatic, but in the long run arguably more significant, objective of cutting back on clergy-only hierarchy.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, U.S. Congress
Our politics stands badly in need of an infusion of decency and idealism.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Synodality
I prefer to wait for the synod to happen before passing final judgment on either its process or its product.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News
Besides getting a pope with a great smile and a winning demeanor, the cardinals who elected him Aug. 26, 1978, unwittingly picked a man with health issues that only 33 days later would lead to his death, making his pontificate one of the shortest ever.
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