Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Movie & Television Reviews
In retelling the fairy tales of bygone eras, filmmakers would do well to allow Snow White’s prince to come, Belle’s Beast to transform and Cinderella’s slipper to fit.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments
We know that God is totally loving and merciful, and is always ready to forgive. And this is why Jesus left the church with the sacrament of penance, to provide a means for reconciliation after post-baptismal sins.
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Filed Under: Commentary, social media
God is good and full of mercy, with plans for us — plans of fullness, not of harm. Increasingly I feel called to serve that reality, to quiet down and let the frenzied world turn its terrible ways while in the grips of a chaos magic that has been increasing in its scope for many decades.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window
A baby giraffe. A new little—well, not so little—life in the world. It was just the spark of joy this gray April day needed.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
As Christians, we boldly speak the name of our Savior, and in doing so we both acknowledge him as God and dare to utter the divine name, for the word Jesus means “I AM saves.”
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OSV News
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OSV News’ Charlie Camosy recently spoke with Melissa Moschella, professor of the practice in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life and author of “Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing,” about the Catholic tradition surrounding this concept and its special importance and relevance in society today.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
As the rain falls softly, we know the lesson of Lent: that as we listen to God’s voice in our lives, we also stand on sacred ground.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window
When I make beef vegetable soup, I am incapable of making the right amount for our family of four. We always end up with extra. So, after I made a pot of soup this week, I texted my sister to see if she’d like some for her, her husband, and their six children. Treasa wrote […]
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints
John Paul was an ecumenical and interreligious innovator.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
If a Catholic attends a clearly invalid wedding in the normal festive spirit, they are celebrating something which is, at least objectively “on paper,” a falsehood.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
If the Cross of Christ shows us anything, it is that loving sinners requires a willingness to suffer.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Evangelization
This year’s Rite of Election in the Archdiocese of Baltimore was beautiful. The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen was filled to overflowing. Nearly 800 catechumens and candidates for reception into the church were joined by their godparents, sponsors, families and friends.
