Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Local News, News
In a normal Christmas, the charity drive helps about 60 families. With COVID-19 increasing the number of households in need, this year it helped nearly 80, and directed a query from Rockville to local resources in Montgomery County.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Advent, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview
On the Dec. 20 episode of Catholic Review Radio, Christopher Gunty interviews Father John Catoir, the longtime host of the TV show, “Christopher Closeup.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The Vatican’s doctrinal office said that when alternative vaccines are not available, it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines developed or tested using cell lines originating from aborted fetuses.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News
Prayers, blessings and reflections from Baltimore-area religious and civic leaders, filmed in their own houses of worship and offices, have been gathered, for one last look at 2020 before stepping into 2021.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
A study published last year in the journal, Nature Sustainability, predicted frankincense resin production will be halved in the next 20 years.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Reaching out to and helping the poor “is to imitate God; it is to make oneself small out of love in order to raise up the other,” the preacher of the papal household told Pope Francis, officials of the Roman Curia and Vatican employees.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
A new report Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center said the use of capital punishment reached a historic low this year in the United States even with the return of federal executions by the Trump administration.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Netflix has announced that in 2021 it will release a documentary series based on “Sharing the Wisdom of Time,” a book in which Pope Francis called for creating “an alliance between the young and old people” by sharing their stories.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News
Working in the Emergency Department at University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Smialkowski was among the first people in the country this week to receive the new vaccine for COVID-19.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, Video, World News
The human figures in the Nativity scene are made of rings of ceramic stacked on top of each other. They are cylindrical, not curvy like a natural human form. And the presence of an astronaut and a knight carries the whole thing to another level of untraditional.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life
The Maryland Catholic Conference – which represents bishops serving the archdioceses of Baltimore and Washington as well as the diocese of Wilmington, Del. – is recommending that the faithful receive COVID-19 vaccines developed by U.S. pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna when available.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
Throughout Africa, a witch is culturally understood to be the epitome of evil and the cause of misfortune, disease and death. Consequently, the witch is the most hated person in African society and subject to punishment, torture and even death.
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