This week’s edition of The Catholic Review features a touching story on Matthew Slattery’s friends who have decorated trees for the Kennedy Krieger Institute benefit, The Festival of Trees. St. Joseph School students decorated a tree for Kennedy Krieger’s annual Festival of Trees. (Courtesy Kennedy Krieger) Matthew was in a horrific crash with his family. His mother...Read More

Tangled's international poster (courtesy fanpop.com) For years, people have wondered when Walt Disney animators would get around to making the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Rapunzel.” The maiden with the never-ending blonde locks will finally make her debut Nov. 24 in theaters, but if you’re scanning your fandango app trying to find “Rapunzel,” you’re out of...Read More

I’ve been in the Catholic news business since I got out of college, and been writing and working for newspapers even longer than that if you count high school and college days, too. When I came to The Catholic Review in July 2009, I knew that I was joining a great group of journalism and...Read More

A narthex is the main gathering area or lobby of a church. It’s where conversation takes place, bringing together  people of all ages and backgrounds. That’s what this blog aspires to be — a spot where you can join a conversation about news and happenings related to the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Catholic world at large.  ...Read More

The surprise election of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops grabbed most of the headlines at last week’s fall bishops’ meeting in Baltimore. A close second might be the bishops’ two-day conference on exorcism, held just before the Nov. 15-18 general assembly of bishops. With...Read More

This coming weekend marks the start of Advent and a new liturgical year for the Church.  Barbara Anderson believes new years are a time for resolutions, and she has a good one in mind. Writing in the Nov. 21 parish bulletin, the pastoral life director of St. Anthony Shrine in Emmitsburg and Our Lady of Mount Carmel...Read More

Father John Hurley and the staff of Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry Father John Hurley, a Paulist, has been a busy man since starting the Department of Evangelization five months ago. Through it all, though, the executive director of the department has made it his mission to be out with the people, particularly...Read More