Question Corner: Do we relax our Lenten fasts on Sunday? March 14, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner The time of Lent is not meant so much to provide us with a literal 40 forty days of penance, but rather to recall Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the desert.
Pope Francis: 10 titles for 10 years March 14, 2023By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Before he was known for anything else, Pope Francis was known as “the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years.”
Let’s make another St. Patrick’s Day Parade memory March 12, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window For as long as I can remember, the Baltimore St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been part of my world.
Question Corner: Weekly Friday sacrifices: You mean they never went away? March 9, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner Our obligation to do some form of penance on Friday is identified in Canon 1250 in the Code of Canon Law, which tells us that “The penitential days and times in the universal church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.”
A Lenten Search March 8, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, The Domestic Church This Lent, as we walk toward Easter, we have a beautiful opportunity to ask ourselves what is missing in our spiritual life and spend time just being with Jesus.
This Lent, you are right where you need to be March 6, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window Some Sundays getting to Mass is trickier than usual, and this weekend, my husband and ended up going to separate services since we were all on different schedules. I was running behind, and I headed to a parish we only visit occasionally.
Deliver yourself from (weekend) temptation March 3, 2023By Robyn Barberry Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Unconditional We are less than a week into Lent and the weariness is setting in for many of us who have chosen to make a Lenten sacrifice.
What we love March 1, 2023By Father Joseph Breighner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Wit & Wisdom I also accept the fact that each day is a day to do something good for God and for others.
‘Question Corner’: What are miracles, and why do we need them? March 1, 2023By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Calling something like an unlikely sports comeback a “miracle” is using quite a bit of poetic license, since there is a readily discernible natural explanation for the victory (namely, the skill of the athletes, which the athletes acquired through their own human efforts).
Launching into Lent (7 Quick Takes) February 26, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window It made me feel as if God was saying, “Just keep your eyes on Jesus, and your Lent will be just fine.”
Failing at Lent? You’re doing just fine February 25, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window I was so proud of him. I didn’t care whether he made the team. I cared that he would feel good about how he did. I wanted him to be happy he had given it a shot.
Person or thing? February 24, 2023By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Feature, Maryland General Assembly, Respect Life Violence against the unborn and violence against the chronically and terminally ill are indeed manifestations of the culture of death – the cheapening of human life.
