Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments
Here are five simple things you can do to prepare for Mass. They aren’t difficult or time-consuming. But they are guaranteed to help you enter more deeply into the celebration of the Mass and achieve a more intimate union with Christ and the other members of the worshiping community.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Racial Justice
The same racism, which is not as overt as it was in the past, seems to be guiding our current immigration policy.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican
Get to know Pope Leo through this list of 10 things he’s actually said in the first days of his pontificate.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window
It’s May, which means every now and then we have a night without baseball or a concert or some other commitment. Mostly, though, it’s a mad dash to the finish. Not to wish time away, but summer can start anytime. It’s my absolute favorite time of year.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary
The modern tradition of Catholic social teaching — the toolbox of principles the church calls us to draw upon to build the just social order — was instigated by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903).
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window
Back in early April, Abigail Benjamin submitted a request for tickets to attend a papal audience in May. Not many people were requesting tickets at the time, as a cardinal handled the papal audiences for an ailing Pope Francis. But Abigail felt she and her husband, Jon, should go. They could never have known that […]
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
It seems unlikely that these men would have been willing to suffer so intensely and give up so much if they themselves did not sincerely believe in the truth of what they were professing. Reasoning it out, what would have been the Apostles’ motivation for making up a new religion if it meant that they had everything to lose but nothing in this world to gain?
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
Mothering is a presence that pulses in flesh and blood. A love that can never go absent, even when it looks like it has left.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican
He commands no armies, but we pray desperately that Pope Leo’s moral weight, and ours as he guides us, can make the world and our country a more peaceful place, a community of love and welcome, a place where all are respected and the common good is the common standard.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints
As we have observed the death of Pope Francis, the conclave and the early days of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, the centenary of St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s canonization — May 17, 1925 — has mostly fallen off the radar. But the details of that momentous event are worth remembering.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican
The way Pope Leo has put Christ at the center in these early days of his pontificate illustrates that Christ is no mere idea or role model.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window
I never thought we would have an American pope, so I had no expectations for how that might different for me, as an American. I had never considered what it would be like to hear a pope talk in English with an American accent.
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