• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to footer
Catholic Review

Catholic Review

Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore

Menu
  • Home
  • News
        • Local News
        • World News
        • Vatican News
        • Obituaries
        • Featured Video
        • En Español
        • Sports News
        • Official Clergy Assignments
        • Schools News
  • Commentary
        • Contributors
          • Question Corner
          • George Weigel
          • Elizabeth Scalia
          • Michael R. Heinlein
          • Effie Caldarola
          • Guest Commentary
        • CR Columnists
          • Archbishop William E. Lori
          • Rita Buettner
          • Christopher Gunty
          • George Matysek Jr.
          • Mark Viviano
          • Father Joseph Breighner
          • Father Collin Poston
          • Robyn Barberry
          • Hanael Bianchi
          • Amen Columns
  • Entertainment
        • Events
        • Movie & Television Reviews
        • Arts & Culture
        • Books
        • Recipes
  • About Us
        • Contact Us
        • Our History
        • Meet Our Staff
        • Photos to own
        • Books/CDs/Prayer Cards
        • CR Media platforms
        • Electronic Edition
  • Advertising
  • Shop
        • Purchase Photos
        • Books/CDs/Prayer Cards
        • Magazine Subscriptions
        • Archdiocesan Directory
  • CR Radio
        • CR Radio
        • Protagonistas de Fe
  • News Tips
  • Subscribe

Commentary

Brownie on a plate with whipped cream a fork

Best By Today

January 13, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

This weekend we started going through our pantry. The plan was to find the items we weren’t eating and donate them to the food pantry at church. What we discovered is that we have plenty of soy sauce, Greek dressing, and granola. We also have an astonishing amount of expired food. Some packages expired not […]

8 ways to live a merciful life

January 11, 2025
By Lorene Hanley Duquin
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Disaster Relief

We tend to think of “mercy” as compassion or sympathy, but the word has a much deeper meaning. It is more than feeling sorry for someone. Having mercy means that we enter into the other person’s suffering.

In Pacific Palisades, paradise lost

January 10, 2025
By Greg Erlandson
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Disaster Relief

Like marauders galloping out of the foothills, the flames swept down on the community that liked to call itself a village, as if its boutique shops and restaurants somehow protected it from a harsher world.

Pope Francis likes a joke

January 9, 2025
By Greg Erlandson
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

Comedy can sting a little, but these days the rage can overwhelm the laughs.

Holiday message of ‘The Loved One’

January 8, 2025
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

True faith rejoices in knowing that the life we celebrate at the stable in Bethlehem is the real answer to death.

Question Corner: Why do we baptize infants, and why was Jesus baptized?

January 8, 2025
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

On a practical level, through Catholic baptism, infants become official members of the Catholic Church, which among other things qualifies them to receive the other sacraments.

Being ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ in the Digital Landscape

January 7, 2025
By Sister Hosea Rupprecht
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Jubilee 2025

With some determination and effort, these suggested practices can bring us a sense of hope as we journey every single day through the digital landscape.

Being human: The challenging task of 2025

January 6, 2025
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

We enter 2025 after a careening, mad season of confusion, hate, deceit and instability. The sense that things are vastly off-kilter and that centers are not holding is almost palpable.

The most desired gift

January 5, 2025
By Effie Caldarola
OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Uncategorized

Sometimes, maintaining hope challenges our faith.

A statue of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton at the Seton Shrine

5 Reasons to Love St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

January 3, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

As a child growing up in Baltimore, I remember learning about Mother Seton. We were especially proud of this new saint, who had a connection to our hometown. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was not only the first American-born saint, but she had spent so much of her life in Maryland. Sometimes on a warm summer […]

Image of a 2025 calendar

New Year, Sorta New Goal

January 3, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

Now 2025 begins. I’m always a little sad to close the book on the past year, but I love the idea of a new beginning. What will this new year bring? What will we bring to this new year?

Breathing life back into the world

January 3, 2025
By Scott P. Richert
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

This destruction wrought by the modern world has theological implications, because Christ, St. John the Evangelist tells us, is the ultimate Word, the fullness of Truth, who gives every other word its meaning and its life.

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 15
  • Page 16
  • Page 17
  • Page 18
  • Page 19
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 168
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

Our Vision

Real Life. Real Faith. 

Catholic Review Media communicates the Gospel and its impact on people’s lives in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and beyond.

Our Mission

Catholic Review Media provides intergenerational communications that inform, teach, inspire and engage Catholics and all of good will in the mission of Christ through diverse forms of media.

Contact

Catholic Review
320 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
443-524-3150
mail@CatholicReview.org

 

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Recent

  • Poll: Record-high percentage of U.S. adults say immigration good for country
  • Scopes Monkey Trial ignited century-long debate on evolution and belief 
  • Patriarchs support Christian communities attacked by Israeli settlers in solidarity visit
  • Pope Leo visits Italian Carabinieri station, Poor Clares during summer break
  • 1 officer dead, 3 seminarians kidnapped after attack on Nigerian seminary
  • Trump administration to appeal after judge blocks ICE detentions based on race
  • Remember common decency in immigration enforcement
  • Sponsors – for life
  • Listen for God this summer

Search

Membership

Catholic Media Assocation

Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association

The Associated Church Press

© 2025 CATHOLIC REVIEW MEDIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

en Englishes Spanish
en en