Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Making his customary visit to the Rome Basilica of St. Mary Major to pray before his trip to the French island of Corsica, Pope Francis also met and prayed with dozens of actors staging a living Nativity scene.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
With the city of Rome presenting a gauntlet of major roadworks and construction projects ahead of the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis used the disruptions as an opportunity to encourage people to do some spiritual renovation before the jubilee.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News
Christmas gifts made by hand offer many benefits, artists and crafters say, no matter if they are baked, painted, sewed or melted. They are one-of-a-kind and mean a lot to both the givers and the receivers.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary, The Domestic Church
As we walk toward Christmas, may we try to view this season as one of opportunity rather than obligation, being open to the journey and to the ways we can give and receive.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary
Here are 13 traditions and devotions that can make our Advent more meaningful and fruitful.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Radio Interview
Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Jason Cherubini, an executive-in-residence at Loyola University Maryland about the business behind holiday movies and why there are so many of them. It’s good business, he says, because people are searching for connection and comfort at this time of year. But the ones that become classics are those that resonate with people year after year.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News
Musicians and musical directors have prepared a wide array of performances to treat worshipers during the Catholic calendar’s most joyous time of the year.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, News, World News
With U.S. household debt approaching $18 trillion as the Christmas shopping season kicks off, a Catholic financial expert is offering practical advice to enjoy the holidays without breaking the bank.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, World News
This year, the USPS selected as the image for this stamp a painting that has been in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields in Indianapolis since 1938.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, News, Vatican, World News
A local Italian group launched an online petition urging Pope Francis, the Vatican and others to stop the “fir tree-icide” of cutting down a 200-year-old red pine to decorate St. Peter’s Square for Christmas.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News, St. Vincent de Paul Baltimore, Uncategorized
As the Christmas season approaches, St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore is reaching out to individuals and organizations to support its Adopt a Family program that connects generous donors with families in SVDP shelters, supportive housing programs and Head Start.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News
Instead of splitting into ideological groups, members of the Catholic Church need to put God front and center, not their own personal ideas and plans, Pope Francis said.
