VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI renewed his “full and unquestionable solidarity” with the world’s Jews and condemned all ignorance, denial and downplaying of the brutal slaughter of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust.Read More

Towson Catholic High School’s 2008 homecoming queen, Ashley Ryan, participated in the 50th annual Liberty Bowl Parade Jan. 1 in Memphis, Tenn., as America’s homecoming queens represented St. Jude Children’s Hospital.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said he learned “with joy” of the election of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad – a prelate he has met three times – as the new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.Read More

MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Rabbi Leon Klenicki, a longtime Jewish voice on Catholic-Jewish relations, died Jan. 25 at his home in Monroe Township. He was 78 years old. No cause of death was immediately reported.Read More

Seven months ago I was in Guadalajara, Mexico, packing my personal belongings on route to my new destination: Baltimore. For almost 10 years I had called Mexico my home, and now it was time to leave. Like the title song from U2 reads, a most difficult realization was to accept, “All that I couldn’t leave...Read More

We greet Black History Month 2009 celebrating the 20th anniversary of The National Day of Prayer for the African-American Family with new hope and the blessed assurance that “we’ve got something to celebrate.”Read More

I sent the following e-mail message to Sen. Mikulski on Nov. 13 using her Web site: “If the article (CR, Nov. 13) is accurate, the Freedom of Choice Act would prohibit medical providers from refusing to provide morally offensive services related to abortion. As you know many people believe abortion destroys life in the womb....Read More

The Catholic Review is becoming much less a news review and much more of a weekly political cheerleading post.Read More