I can’t accept cavalier disrespect directed toward our democracy. I feel angry, sad, and betrayed. The world feels upside-down.

As we say a farewell and good riddance to 2020, I selected some images that made me smile or gave me energy these past months. Hopefully, they will do the same for you.

Father Doyle fields questions about providing written homilies and offering Masses for deceased non-Catholics.

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.

As we watch our children grow up right before our eyes, we are reminded that time is limited and precious.

Happy New Year! How did you celebrate the arrival of 2021?

If our friendship with the Eucharistic Lord is alive and well, many blessings will flow upon each of us, upon our families and parishes, and upon the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Even with the many challenges of a difficult year, the Catholic Review accomplished great things in 2020.

Thank you for today, God, and for tomorrow – the days ahead we have yet to unwrap and discover.

So, I am not making any specific New Year’s resolutions. But I love choosing an inspirational word of the year and a saint of the year.