Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
The thing that most of us probably find most challenging is that in it all we are ultimately called to endurance and patience, and to humbly and attentively seek to accomplish what sets itself before us.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church
When I think of our Father in heaven, I like to imagine him being a little like my father on Earth – looking at a problem and finding a way to solve it that I can’t see.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
“Parish administrator” is distinct from the office of pastor, but this distinction probably will not make much of a practical difference in your day-to-day experience of parish life.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, War in Ukraine
Putin’s war on Ukraine is a war to reverse the American and Western victory in the resolution of the Cold War.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Respect Life
Congress could make this “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” less expensive, more advantageous economically and beneficial to the entire community by removing the increased spending on the enforcement-only approach to immigration and moving the bill forward with a stay on deportations of non-criminal immigrants.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window
As an adult, though, I lean hard on the Holy Spirit for wisdom, for courage, and for inspiration.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
Despite every detour, U-Turn and even shipwreck their mission is always the same: to bring salvation in Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican
I’ve also had an absolute conviction, from the moment that his papal name was announced, that this pontificate will have an historical significance to rival that of John Paul II’s, Leo XIII’s, and Pius IX’s.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Journalism, social media
One of my mom’s sayings was, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” This came to mind as I reflected on the message for this year’s World Communications Day: “Share with gentleness the hope that is in your heart.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
A god to be feared but not loved would be a god who dealt in negatives, but we know that there are no negatives in God, that Creation came into being with the “yes” of his intention, and it is sustained to this very second by that continued affirmation.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
Although we might tend to use different vocabulary in pastoral contexts, as Catholics we believe that marriage is at its core an exchange of consent, which is indeed a “contract” in the broad sense of the term.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, Vatican
An interest in life at the Church’s administrative center is fine; an obsession with it, fueled by ill-informed blogs and social media, is not.
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