“People really want to be challenged to be better than even they think they can be,” Father Matthew Buening said.
Commentary
A week of turmoil and triumph
Each year, we celebrate the most momentous week in all of history, a week filled with turmoil and triumph: Holy Week.
Question Corner: Substituting penitential practice?/Creating fake identity
Father Doyle fields questions about penitential practice and creating a false identity.
Amen: Father Mike’s field hospital
“Some focus on a specific issue, Father Bialek said of Father Mike Orchik. “He wants to help all people, regardless of their situation.”
Amen: Can Big Brother make you virtuous?
A government can’t make its citizens virtuous by bribing them or threatening them with punishment.
There’s a mouse in the house—and there’s a Catholic saint who can help with that
There’s a mouse in the house—and there’s a Catholic saint who can help with that
Amen: Holy Ghost Power
If one of the features the Review publishes in the coming year moves you or your neighbor to give even more, it will fulfill its purpose.
What are you thankful for?
The Catholic Review traveled across the Archdiocese of Baltimore to ask parishioners, students, alumni and religious one question: What are you thankful for?
After invective, what do we do?
Now that the election is over, let’s agree to disagree and do it with civility and respect for others.
Amen: Transform young hearts into places of prayer
Praying with young children doesn’t have to be intimidating. There are moments throughout the day that can be turned into opportunities to teach little ones about God.
Amen: Amid change, same message
Through all of this change, the message of the church remains the same: Jesus Christ – yesterday, today and forever, as St. John Paul II reminded us.
When I am not enough
“We are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others,” St. Clare of Assisi said.