Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News
Polls show a tight contest between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the final stretch of the 2024 campaign season.
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary
You don’t need to attack a candidate to explain why this policy that he has proposed, or that action that her administration has taken, doesn’t align with Catholic teaching.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington said he hopes U.S. voters who are as concerned as he is about the “anger and vitriol” of the current election cycle will take time away from the media to think and pray about the values important to them as Catholics.
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, News, Respect Life, World News
Jennie Bradley Lichter, president-elect of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, said challenges for the group’s cause on both political and cultural fronts also present an opportunity to demonstrate “leading with love.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Eucharist, Feature, News, social media, World News
Michigan’s Catholic bishops have expressed “profound disappointment and offense” after that state’s Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared to mock the Eucharist in a social media video posted by feminist author and podcaster Liz Plank.
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, News, World News
A recent report from Springtide Research Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, found that a growing share of young people do not identify with a political party, defying traditional political categories.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Local News, Maryland Catholic Conference, News, Radio Interview, Respect Life
Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Jenny Kraska, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, about how Catholics are “homeless” in today’s political landscape. She also talks about the constitutional referendum, Maryland Question 1 – the Right to Reproductive Freedom Act and why Marylanders should vote against the ballot measure.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life
The Maryland Catholic Conference, which represents the state’s Catholic bishops in Annapolis, is joining other local Catholic leaders in urging Marylanders to vote no on Question 1 – “The Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary, Respect Life
IVF treatments — which fertilize an egg outside the body in a laboratory dish — are opposed by the Catholic Church because they frequently involve the destruction of human embryos, in addition to other ethical and moral issues.
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary
To argue that we must compromise the church’s moral and social teaching so that we may cast a vote for “the lesser of two evils” is to declare implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) that Christianity is of only moderate importance compared with the electoral politics of the day.
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary
Our politicians lately have been setting a bad example (again?) for the rest of us via their so-called debates.
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, World News
At the first and only debate Oct. 1 between Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the vice presidential nominees of their respective parties, the candidates sparred with each other on topics including abortion, immigration, gun policy relating to preventing school shootings, and democracy, with each one all the while seeking to defend his own running mate while critiquing his opponent’s.
