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Guest Commentary

History’s greatest inaugural speeches

Elise Italiano Ureneck January 14, 2021
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

Inaugurations speak to our innate need to start over from time to time, to express new hopes and fears, to realign our priorities and make sure the path we’re walking on is the right one.

A final requiem for an extraordinary nun and champion of Black Catholic history

Avatar January 5, 2021
By Shannen Dee Williams
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice

In a racially and economically tumultuous year that saw a significant rise in calls for the church to acknowledge and make reparations for its largely unreconciled practices of slavery and segregation, the loss of Sister Reginald, and her expertise in African American Catholic history, was especially wrenching.

Do you hear what I hear? Family’s ‘bracket’ determines Christmas carol favorites

Bo Smolka December 17, 2020
By Bo Smolka
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Schools

The Smolka family explores how favorite Christmas carols stack up.

The joy of Advent and pregnancy

Cassandra Palmer December 10, 2020
By Cassandra Palmer
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary

The Advent season is a reminder that our own childlike faith can hardly imagine what God has in store for us.

Christmas prayer: ‘Do you want to hold him?’

Father Richard Malloy, S.J. December 7, 2020
By Father Richard Malloy, S.J.
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary, Guest Commentary

As I hold the savior of the world, all tiny and baby bald, smaller than a loaf of bread, I don’t do anything. Nor say anything. Silence is often the best conduit of God.

All Saints’ Day: History and traditions

Paul Senz October 31, 2020
By Paul Senz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Saints

The author of the Letter to the Hebrews wrote, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter […]

Autumn: Patience and promise amid the change

Mike Nelson October 28, 2020
By Mike Nelson
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

For me, patience and promise summarize the season of autumn, the term I prefer to fall, since it connotes a year’s “passing” rather than its “decline.” It’s a season I have long regarded with both joy and sadness.

Woe to those who gossip

Elise Italiano Ureneck September 23, 2020
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

Gossip may be shared between two people, let’s say by a tweet and reply or a Facebook post on another person’s wall, but it is shared with the knowledge that both parties’ followers will see it. What is most pernicious is that it’s often shared not in spite of that knowledge but because of it.

In difficult times, hope sustains us

Father Richard Malloy, S.J. September 10, 2020
By Father Richard Malloy, S.J.
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

Hope is the courageous work of waiting for the solution, for things to get better.

New life in Catholic education

Carolyn Woo September 9, 2020
By Carolyn Woo
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

The dogged efforts to hold on to or retrofit legacy models failed to halt the large-scale exit of about half of Catholic schools since the ’60s. Nevertheless, in the past two decades, with urgency and many people stepping up, new approaches and mindsets have burst with boldness and vigor.

Where do we go from here? Look inward

Carole Norris Greene August 28, 2020
By Carole Norris Greene
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Amen, Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice

The church is in a unique position to offer forums for frank discussions of race and where we go from here.

‘Moby-Dick’ and the online search for identity

Brett Robinson August 24, 2020
By Brett Robinson
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Uncategorized

A million comments and tweets appear every second seeking attention, a kindred spirit, a witness. Each communique from the keyboard of users worldwide is one more shout into the abyss waiting for an echo of acknowledgment.

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