Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life, The Catholic Difference
A post-Roe America will be one in which the pro-life movement must work with state legislators to provide legal protection to unborn children.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference
“Besides the cradle in which our Lord, it is alleged, was rocked, is the stone manger of the grotto of Bethlehem. One of the stones of this manger is shown in the basilica of St. Maria Maggiore on the Esquiline, in the altar of the crypt of the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference
Parents and high school seniors making those tough college decisions would do well to look beyond the U.S. News and World Report college rankings and consider UD, Benedictine College, the University of Mary, Christendom College, Thomas Aquinas College, and other small Catholic liberal arts colleges.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Schools, The Catholic Difference
Today, inner-urban Catholic schools are a lifeline for children whose futures are being put at even greater risk by failing government schools and hidebound teachers’ unions that resist educational reform while engaging in various forms of ideological indoctrination.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, The Catholic Difference
Ryszard Kuklinski was a genuine hero of the long, twilight struggle against communist totalitarianism — the man who helped prevent a bloody Soviet invasion of Poland to crush the nascent Solidarity movement.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Commentary, The Catholic Difference
It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but for native Baltimoreans of a certain vintage (like me) it is, was, and always will be “the Old Cathedral:” the first of its kind in the United States
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, The Catholic Difference
What happened on Easter Sunday was the most explosive experience in human history, shattering all previous expectations of human destiny.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference
The first responsibility here lies with the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, who should do what Pope St. Clement I did with the rowdy Corinthians in the immediate post-apostolic period and what Pope St. Gregory the Great did with brother bishops during the age of the Fathers: call the German bishops back to the “faith which was once for all delivered to the saints”
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Obituaries, The Catholic Difference
He rarely expressed doubts about anything; but he displayed a great sensitivity to the doubts and confusions of those who had the humility to confess that they were at sea.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference
Teaching the truth of the Eucharist is thus a task for this moment, turning plague time into a time of renewed faith in the wonder of what we are offered in holy communion.
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Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam [For the greater glory of God], often reduced to the abbreviation, AMDG, was the Latin motto of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. Georgetown Prep is a Jesuit school. So what happened to the D-word? What happened to God? Why did AMDG become AM[D]G while being translated into fundraising English?
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Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference
If inner-city and other low- and middle-income Catholic schools are emptied because of unbearable financial pressures on parents, there will be multiple victims.
