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Road trip, stolen Cheetos, baby bunnies, and muffin tops (7 Quick Takes)

June 11, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

Last weekend, we hit the road as a family and drove to New York to visit my sister Maureen and her four amazing children.

The Summer Reading List: A Ukrainian Primer

June 9, 2022
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference, War in Ukraine

Given the rubbish about Ukraine spewed out by Russian propaganda trolls and regurgitated by foolish or ideologically besotted Americans, this year’s annual Summer Reading List will focus on serious books that explain the background, including the religious dimension, of a conflict that will shape Europe’s future – and ours.

Just the other day

June 9, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, The Domestic Church

Graduations bring so many emotions. I’m overjoyed to be seeing our son taking this step. I’m beyond proud of the person he’s becoming. I am honored to be his mother. I’m grateful to be here to see him reach this point.

No worries, Kate. I’ve been there, too.

June 7, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

Anyone who’s ever parented a 4-year-old knows that moment. You’re in line at the grocery store or sitting in a pew at church or attending your husband’s grandmother’s platinum jubilee when your child starts acting out.

Navigating a changing media landscape

June 6, 2022
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Commentary, Feature, Journalism

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops plans to shut down domestic operations of CNS at the end of 2022.

Awe before God’s mercy and love

June 6, 2022
By Father Ed Dougherty, M.M.
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Light One Candle

Fear of the Lord, which is the awe we are to have before God’s mercy and love, is not the only misunderstood gift of the Holy Spirit.

The first swim of the season, visiting friends, and a crocheted frog (7 Quick Takes)

June 5, 2022
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

Happy Pentecost! Happy birthday to the Church! Here are a few highlights from our week. ~1~ One of my goals every summer is to make sure our sons get some swimming time. One night this week our friends invited us to come to their house to enjoy their pool, so our boys had their first […]

A tale of two weddings

June 3, 2022
By Greg Erlandson
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Marriage & Family Life

Opportunities for witness and evangelization are everywhere and all about us.

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.

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