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Commentary

Walking through Holy Week

March 30, 2021
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Easter, Open Window

We don’t need to begin the holiest week of the year at our best. It comes either way. And maybe we’re prepared to receive the risen Jesus in a way we can’t quite see.

What will we sing in heaven?

March 30, 2021
By Dominican Father Vincent Ferrer Bagan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Divine Worship, Easter, Feature, Guest Commentary

If we allow the graces of the cross to take away all in our lives that is not of God, we will eventually be ready to celebrate the perpetual Easter of heaven, in which we will sing “Holy, holy, holy,” and “Glory to God in the highest,” and “Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia,” without end, rejoicing with all the angels and saints in God’s presence forever.

We say grace in this house

March 29, 2021
By Suzanna Molino Singleton
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Snippets of Faith

Whether you and I are in good practice or not of praying in the morning, evening, or throughout the day, thanking God for our meals is a simple and easy way to praise Him.

My father’s cookies, a leftover bunny, and other discoveries (7 Quick Takes)

March 26, 2021
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

~1~ Can you go to your parents’ house and come home empty-handed? Me neither. I came home with a bag of my father’s homemade cookies, a copy of the newspaper with our wedding announcement in it, a few wedding photos I had forgotten about, and printouts of our online guestbook. I don’t even recall having […]

A look at 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines — and counting!

March 25, 2021
By Father Ricky Manalo
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary

The quincentenary that marks the introduction of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines cannot go unnoticed, given the impact and influence that Catholicism has and continues to have in the everyday lives of Filipinos.

Were the apostles baptized?/ What should a homily be about?

March 25, 2021
By Father Kenneth Doyle
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Question Corner

Father Doyle fields questions about whether the apostles baptized and what homilies should be about.

“Are you sitting down?”

March 24, 2021
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

How we share information matters. That’s why people put so much care into marriage proposals and pregnancy announcements.

Welcome people with Down syndrome for who they are

March 21, 2021
By Molly Sheahan
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Respect Life

People with Down syndrome are valuable because they are people, members of the human family, cherished by God their creator.

Half-birthdays for finches, corned beef, and that time I won an award (7 Quick Takes)

March 20, 2021
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

Our two baby finches celebrated their half-birthdays this week.

Missing out again

March 18, 2021
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

I met the anniversary of the last day of in-person school with eyes wide open—bracing myself for that weight. But I’m realizing that missing out on experiences for the second time might be harder.

A song for Mother Tolton

March 18, 2021
By Shannen Dee Williams
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice

This March, as we celebrate Women’s History Month, let us pledge to rediscover and remember the lives and labors of the Black women, like Mother Tolton, who in the face of unyielding discrimination fought to make the church in the United States truly Catholic.

The world episcopate and the German apostasy

March 18, 2021
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

The first responsibility here lies with the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, who should do what Pope St. Clement I did with the rowdy Corinthians in the immediate post-apostolic period and what Pope St. Gregory the Great did with brother bishops during the age of the Fathers: call the German bishops back to the “faith which was once for all delivered to the saints”

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