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Commentary

That bad grade in Chemistry

May 30, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

It was a rainy Sunday afternoon when my father knocked on our door. He handed me a sheet of test scores from Mrs. Dougherty’s fourth-grade class, a dog’s license we had apparently never attached to her collar, and a report card from my first semester of college. Now, I was never a summa cum laude […]

Old Bay Goldfish, treats on the grill, and thoughts on prayer (7 Quick Takes)

May 28, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

Here in Baltimore, we take our Old Bay seriously. We put it on many foods—pizza and scrambled eggs and tuna melts and pasta and corn on the cob. Yum.

Finding solace in faith after shootings provide another reminder of horrific day

May 25, 2022
By Gerry Jackson
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature

The latest tragedies in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., arrive less than a month before my personal anniversary of gloom on June 28 – the date four years ago when five of my newspaper colleagues were shot to death in an Annapolis newsroom.

A lost tortoise comes home

May 22, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

This story starts with a birthday wish and ends with a miracle.

Yard sales, a B2 Spirit bomber, and a backyard scavenger hunt (7 Quick Takes)

May 21, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

~1~ Our neighborhood held its annual yard sale this weekend. Before I married John, I am not sure I had ever even gone to a yard sale. But John really enjoys selling things. He especially loves the neighborhood yard sale because we get to see neighbors that we haven’t seen all winter—and meet a few […]

CCC collection supports local, global Catholic media and communications

May 19, 2022
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Journalism

Gifts to the Catholic Communication Campaign benefit local dioceses and their communication efforts, and it will supply far more than technology — it will spread the faith, hope and love of Jesus Christ, and of his Church, to people and places where the word of God is needed most.

When St. Bernadette’s relics came to Baltimore

May 15, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

I realized I could fit in a very brief trip, but it would have to be on my own, without my family.

Taking care of Mom and Dad

May 11, 2022
By Maureen Pratt
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Seniors

This month and next, as we celebrate all mothers and fathers, many of us will be in the blessed but challenging position of helping our parents navigate their older years, when human fragility can bring on sometimes all-encompassing vulnerability.

A band concert miracle

May 10, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

I sent my husband an email titled, “HALLELUJAH!”

Muffin tops, soup weather, pasta for the Class of 2022, and more (7 Quick Takes)

May 8, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

When I baked this week, I decided to try to make a few muffins that were just the tops.

Mary, be a mother to me now

May 5, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, The Domestic Church

Mary, too, wants to be less of a guest in our lives and more of a mother to each of us.

Through a child’s eyes

May 4, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window, Uncategorized

I’m so grateful to have the photo our son captured of this wonderful priest’s warm smile.

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