The rain is just what the rosebush needs.
A Grandmother’s Roses
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window
Commentary
Our heart of darkness
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration, Racial Justice
The treatment of the undocumented — calling them vermin, terrorists, criminals — is hardening us.
St. Carlo and timing
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints
Eighty thousand adolescents thought they were traveling to Rome for the much-anticipated canonization of Carlo Acutis. Instead, many were in the Eternal City for the Holy Father’s funeral.
In a dark world, look for the helpers
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Remembering Pope Francis
Pope Francis was a helper and he encouraged helpers everywhere.
Pope Francis, RIP
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Remembering Pope Francis
Throughout his pontificate, with the fire and occasional cantankerousness of some of the early fathers of the church, Pope Francis admonished us to quit worrying about the sins, real and imagined, of others, and to see in them the face of our Savior — and to serve him through serving them.
What’s missing?
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Amen Gunty Commentary, Child & Youth Protection, Commentary
If the state wants to show that reducing caps for those who sue the state for abuse is not “just about the money,” then Gov. Moore and other state officials need to go on a listening tour and meet face to face with victim-survivors, particularly those who were abused in state-run institutions.
Queen of the May
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window
Once upon a time I was a second grader at St. Pius X School in Towson. One day, our teacher, Sister Suzanne, announced to my class that it was time to prepare for the May Procession.
Europe and America
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, Uncategorized
American public officials are more likely to be heard if they call on our parent civilization to reclaim the nobility that defeated fascism, Nazism, and communism: a defense of human dignity in which Americans and Europeans contested for the future shoulder to shoulder.
Question Corner: What are my Easter duties?
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, Question Corner
In broad terms, “the Easter duty” usually refers to a fully initiated Catholic’s obligation to make a good sacramental confession and receive holy Communion every year around the time of Easter.
Laying odds on papabili, and our ‘vulgar’ church
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Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Commentary
A tidy church would be a dead church, so we may as well just keep to our ugly, vulgar and unseemly ways, remembering that (somehow) we, as church, have birthed so much wisdom and beauty century after tawdry human century!
Son of St. Alphonsus
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Bishops, Charity in Truth, Commentary, From the Archbishop
In early April, it was announced that Pope Francis appointed Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., to be the next bishop of Providence, R.I. The Holy Father could not have chosen a better bishop to guide that important diocese in the years ahead.
Pope Francis a reflection of Christ’s tenderness, mercy
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Remembering Pope Francis
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, radiated the deep joy of one who truly believed in the Resurrection. His smile, simplicity, and sense of humor made him not only a beloved spiritual father but also a reflection of the risen Christ’s tenderness and mercy.
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