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Guest Commentary

Welcome people with Down syndrome for who they are

March 21, 2021
By Molly Sheahan
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Respect Life

People with Down syndrome are valuable because they are people, members of the human family, cherished by God their creator.

A song for Mother Tolton

March 18, 2021
By Shannen Dee Williams
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice

This March, as we celebrate Women’s History Month, let us pledge to rediscover and remember the lives and labors of the Black women, like Mother Tolton, who in the face of unyielding discrimination fought to make the church in the United States truly Catholic.

It’s time for Maryland to pass the Trust Act in support of immigrants

March 16, 2021
By Bill McCarthy Jr.
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary, Hispanic Ministry, Immigration and Migration, Maryland General Assembly

When we act to protect our immigrant neighbors through trust policies, we are also benefiting the common good.

How badly do we want to return?

March 9, 2021
By Greg Erlandson
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

The moment is arriving when parish and diocesan staff must use all the tools available to them to create a welcoming community, giving people a reason to come back as soon as they feel safe to do so.

We need rituals to mourn

March 2, 2021
By Laura Kelly Fanucci
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

Theologians and liturgists praise the power of rituals at the core of our faith. Rhythms of prayer and traditions of worship orient our lives toward God and set a solid foundation in an ever-shifting world.

This Lent, risk prayer

March 1, 2021
By Father Richard Malloy, S.J.
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent

Don’t underestimate yourself. God has need of the talents you have been given. Prayer shows us how to use and multiply our gifts.

Lent’s promise in bleak times

February 18, 2021
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent

Perhaps it’s a blessing, then, that the church gives us Lent in midwinter. It’s a season of soul-searching; the gray skies give us no other choice but to turn inward and examine the dark spaces we’d rather not explore.

Ash Wednesday: Guided by St. Clare of Assisi

February 16, 2021
By Shemaiah Gonzalez
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent

This Lent, I call on St. Clare of Assisi to show me the way. I need a sister in Christ to lead me through Lent radically different than in Lents past — to embrace penance, conversion and self-sacrifice as Jesus refines me.

Claudette Colvin: The spark before Rosa Parks

February 9, 2021
By Carole Norris Greene
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice

On March 2, 1955, Claudette was a 15-year-old frightened Black girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was jailed nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for the same civil disobedience, but not in the same way.

Add and multiply to subtract our losses

February 4, 2021
By Laura Kelly Fanucci
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

In a time when we feel deeply divided and we’ve lost so much, what could we add or multiply to help those who need it most?

Names for public spaces matter

January 26, 2021
By Shannen Dee Williams
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice

As our nation and church continue to suffer the lethal effects of their ongoing failures to fully acknowledge and atone for centuries of slavery and segregation, the new Norman Francis Parkway is an important beacon of hope.

Exhaustion meets new beginnings

January 19, 2021
By Hosffman Ospino
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice

The cavalier use of racist language in our public discourse, the rise of an emerging nationalism built upon anti-immigrant sentiments and the disdain for people who struggle with poverty, among other sociocultural misfits in our day, demand a communal examination of conscience.

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