Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
If we cooperate with baptismal grace, the sacrament guarantees that we can “participate in the divine life of the Trinity” first of all by receiving the theological virtues: faith, hope and love.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
Pope Francis in his dozen years and counting has reformed the curia, overhauled Vatican finances, brought women and laymen into positions of authority, and appointed cardinals from the periphery rather than just the traditional cardinalate sees.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Saints
The lives of the saints are filled with examples of heroic virtue (faith, hope and love), but they weren’t born with it. And it was never just handed to them, no matter how they came to Christ.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
Lent isn’t just a time for repairing what you’ve failed to maintain. It can be a time for refurbishing, revising and revitalizing. For getting started on “You 2.0.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window
I was rinsing dishes in the sink when my younger son—who’s 15—came into the kitchen. “So, what will it be like when we go to college?” he said. “Will you miss us?”
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Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Movie & Television Reviews
Here’s how the eight out of 10 films I was able to see hold up in the human dignity department.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Question Corner
Under ordinary circumstances, the church does not allow non-Catholics to receive Holy Communion. But this discipline is not meant to “keep people away from Jesus.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Vocations
Monasticism first emerged as a lay movement focused on cultivating a deep and radical love for both God and neighbor.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life
Nadya Williams, a classicist and historian who walked away from academia to be a stay-at-home mom, recently spoke with OSV News’ Charlie Camosy about her new book “Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window
Here comes Lent. God gives us this season not just to reflect on Jesus’ life, suffering, and sacrifice for us, but also to offer us a chance to lean on him, to walk with him, and to find ways to open ourselves up to his love.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary
The ongoing lesson of the crucifix is that sometimes disturbing things are permitted so that something great might be enabled to occur.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary
Catholic social teaching is one of the tools given by the church to guide us in living this call. Founded in Scripture and developed further through a series of papal documents, the social teaching of the church provides direction for how we are to live with our neighbor.
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