• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to footer
Catholic Review

Catholic Review

Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore

Menu
  • Home
  • News
        • Local News
        • World News
        • Vatican News
        • Obituaries
        • Featured Video
        • En Español
        • Sports News
        • Official Clergy Assignments
        • Schools News
  • Commentary
        • Contributors
          • Question Corner
          • George Weigel
          • Elizabeth Scalia
          • Michael R. Heinlein
          • Effie Caldarola
          • Guest Commentary
        • CR Columnists
          • Archbishop William E. Lori
          • Rita Buettner
          • Christopher Gunty
          • George Matysek Jr.
          • Mark Viviano
          • Father Joseph Breighner
          • Father Collin Poston
          • Robyn Barberry
          • Hanael Bianchi
          • Amen Columns
  • Entertainment
        • Events
        • Movie & Television Reviews
        • Arts & Culture
        • Books
        • Recipes
  • About Us
        • Contact Us
        • Our History
        • Meet Our Staff
        • Photos to own
        • Books/CDs/Prayer Cards
        • CR Media platforms
        • Electronic Edition
  • Advertising
  • Shop
        • Purchase Photos
        • Books/CDs/Prayer Cards
        • Magazine Subscriptions
        • Archdiocesan Directory
  • CR Radio
        • CR Radio
        • Protagonistas de Fe
  • News Tips
  • Subscribe

Books

Pope, in new book, says he has not considered resigning

March 14, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

A pope’s ministry is meant to last his lifetime, Pope Francis said, and, at least until now, he has not considered resigning.

After a decade’s work, scholar brings Flannery O’Connor’s unfinished novel to light

February 19, 2024
By Maria Wiering
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, News, World News

Titled “Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress,” the 192-page book pairs O’Connor’s fragments with Wilson’s commentary on the events and writings that influence them.

Lenten retreat: Book helps people explore pope’s teaching on belonging

February 16, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Lent, News, World News

Pope Francis’s concern for migrants and refugees, his focus on ecology, his calls to “go out” to share the good news of salvation, even his support for the controversial possibility of informally blessing LGBTQ+ couples flow from his conviction that people need to know they belong to God, to one another and to creation.

Five great Lenten reads

February 15, 2024
By OSV News
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Lent

The season of Lent is an ideal time to grow in the spiritual life. Here are five great reads to help you on your way.

Pope Francis in new book interview says his predecessor had ‘courage to resign’

February 9, 2024
By Magdalena Wolinska-Riedi
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

While memories of the shocking moment when Pope Benedict XVI resigned Feb. 11, 2013, are still fresh for the German pope’s collaborators, it is Pope Francis who reflects on Benedict’s historic decision in a newly published book interview.

Author Flannery O’Connor shared her faith through fiction

February 2, 2024
By Russell Shaw
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.

Minding Mass: Catholics need better liturgical formation, expert says

January 31, 2024
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Catholics need to know what their words and gestures at Mass signify and evoke, a liturgical expert said.

Servant of God’s ‘Diaries’ open a window into the soul of a disciple, says Boston cardinal

January 14, 2024
By Maria del Pilar Guzman
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News

Founded in Spain in the 1960s, amid the shanty towns of Palomeras Altas near Madrid, the Neocatechumenal Way was defined by St. John Paul II as “an itinerary of Catholic formation.”

Catholic publisher pulls priest’s book over plagiarism allegation

January 11, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News

Loyola Press announced Jan. 10 it would pull from publication “60 Seconds for Jesus” by Father Jim Sichko, a priest of the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., and a papal Missionary of Mercy known for his motivational talks, generous donations and active social and mainstream media presence.

Radio Interview: ‘Rebuilt Faith’

December 11, 2023
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints

Rebuilt Parish has expanded to workbooks, podcasts and more, engaging with hundreds of parishes across the nation. Now, the pair has published a new book directed at the faithful, “Rebuilt Faith: A Handbook for Skeptical Catholics,” which outlines a 40-day plan to help Catholics reconnect to what matters.

‘You kill your crickets, eh?’ Discovering Dickens’ other Christmas tale

December 7, 2023
By Kenneth Craycraft
OSV News
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.

Radio Interview: Hound of the Lord

December 4, 2023
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints

Eleanor Bourg Nicholson’s new children’s book, “The Hound of the Lord,” creatively retells the inspiring story of St. Dominic from the perspective of the saint’s ever-watchful canine companion, “Torch.”

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 11
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

Our Vision

Real Life. Real Faith. 

Catholic Review Media communicates the Gospel and its impact on people’s lives in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and beyond.

Our Mission

Catholic Review Media provides intergenerational communications that inform, teach, inspire and engage Catholics and all of good will in the mission of Christ through diverse forms of media.

Contact

Catholic Review
320 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
443-524-3150
mail@CatholicReview.org

 

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Recent

  • Pope urges Madagascar’s bishops to protect creation as prophetic mission
  • At audience with martyr’s mother, pope prays for peace in Congo
  • Sharing joy of discovery contributes to peace, pope tells astronomers
  • Pope addresses instances of violence against Christians, prays for peace
  • Radio Interview: Books and Authors: Inspiring Trailblazers
  • USCCB, Catholic Charities among 200 NGOs in House probe on migrant aid
  • Over 20,000 permanent deacons serve church, but death, retirement bring overall number down
  • Pope Leo XIV’s diplomatic efforts may impact U.S. foreign policy, analyst says
  • Jesus doesn’t leave us alone in the night

Search

Membership

Catholic Media Assocation

Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association

The Associated Church Press

© 2025 CATHOLIC REVIEW MEDIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

en Englishes Spanish
en en