Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
The catechism is meant as a summary of core Catholic beliefs and is widely available both in print and online — and there are a few searchable web versions of the catechism that make it fairly simple to navigate.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Synodality, The Catholic Difference
Some of those in charge of the “Synod on Synodality” may have regarded the German “Synodal Path” as a useful instrument in clearing the path for a dramatic reconfiguration of Catholic self-understanding and governance, moving the goalposts so far to the left that the old 50-yard line of the Catholic Vital Center would now be the old left end zone.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary
This isn’t intended to be a long lecture of dos and don’ts, but rather guideposts to help the children over the next few weeks.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary, The Domestic Church
This Advent and Christmas season, the time is right for us to rediscover that familiar story and experience God’s presence in a new way, knowing we are exactly where we need to be.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Commentary, Open Window
That day when I had that sudden thought, the child who would become our younger son was newly born and not far away. Only God could have known that.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary, Feature
The detailing of each and every piece of the presepe found along the Via San Gregorio Armeno is exact and minute, the work of artists who spend years honing their craft.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Commentary
John the Baptist cries out to us, like parents urging their children, saying “This is the Lord!”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Blog, Commentary, Open Window
There is nothing like that wait for the baby to arrive, especially in those final hours before the birth.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Commentary
“The Christmas Carol” is only the most prominent of Dickens’s several Christmas stories, my favorite of which is “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home,” published on Dec. 20, 1845.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Question Corner
You cannot “double dip” by attending a Christmas eve Mass that happens to be on Sunday and have this one Mass fulfill two obligations.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
Growing our spiritual lives while immersed in a digital world requires a media spirituality that centers us in Christ, the perfect communicator.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Young Adult Ministry
The things we buy cannot replace quality time spent with loved ones.
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