Commentary

Trusting author of our life stories

August 22, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church

We have to accept that even with the suffering and challenges life can bring, God is writing a more wonderful story than we could imagine.

Weigel’s new book recounts “unexpected” connection to St. John Paul II

August 10, 2017
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary

How did a Baltimore boy get connected to Pope John Paul II, and how did he come to write “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II,” published in the fall of 1999, and “The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy.” Listen to George Weigel talk about his new book, “Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II,” on “Catholic Baltimore.

Summer’s blockbuster tales

August 2, 2017
By Father Joseph Breighner
Filed Under: Commentary, Wit & Wisdom

Father Joseph Breighner shares some thoughts about two books that could be blockbusters.

A population implosion?

August 2, 2017
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

Catholics worried about the rise of atheism can take a short-term and a long-term approach. Right now, we need to educate our children, evangelize and respond to attacks on the faith. As for the long term, Catholic couples, can you guess?

Musing on the teeth of St. Ambrose

August 2, 2017
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire

We clothe the skeleton of St. Ambrose in stately liturgical robes and we crown his skull with a bishop’s miter, not be macabre or “creepy,” but because we reverence his body as a place where Christ had come to dwell

‘How is your relationship with God?’

July 27, 2017
By Kevin J. Parks
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

Kevin Parks, the Catholic Review’s visual journalist, shares how his harrowing battle with a brain tumor helped put faith and prayer even more in focus.

Military action against the Islamic State group?/ Protestant church once a year

July 25, 2017
By Father Kenneth Doyle
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

Father Doyle address questions about military action against the Islamic State group and attending a Protestant church once a year.

Celebrating honors for the Catholic Review

July 24, 2017
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Commentary

The Catholic Review picked up 32 awards combined from the Associated Church Press, the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and Canada, and the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association.

Who speaks for Charlie Gard?

July 20, 2017
By Richard Doerflinger
Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary

We are morally obliged to accept treatment that offers benefit without entailing greater burdens. Catholic tradition does not teach a “vitalism” insisting that everything possible must always be done to prolong life.

A word about a word

July 19, 2017
By Dorothy Tabeling
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

Last May, I earned a master’s degree in theology from St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute in Roland Park. It was a new field of study for me, and I admit that I wasn’t really clear on the meaning of “theology” when I embarked on this endeavor. What kind of things would I be studying? Would all […]