Just when you thought you had the words to the Mass down pat, they go and change them on us! If you’ve been carefully reading your Catholic Review or paying attention to your parish’s bulletin, you likely already know that beginning later this year, many of the words to the prayers English-speaking Catholics—priests and lay...Read More

Catholic Review Column May 5, 2011 Title: Attacks on Religious Freedom Still Exist at Home “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government...Read More

The Catholic Review Dear People of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, The issue of a shortage of priests has always been with our Church. Whether in the early days of the newly reated Diocese of Baltimore or when European immigration was at its zenith, bishops have always contended with the issue of having enough priests to...Read More

The Catholic Review Dear People of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, The issue of a shortage of priests has always been with our Church. Whether in the early days of the newly reated Diocese of Baltimore or when European immigration was at its zenith, bishops have always contended with the issue of having enough priests to...Read More

The Catholic Review In the span of three days, the power of concerned faith communities of Maryland was on display as people of varying religious traditions recently came together to positively impact the political process in our state on three very important issues. First, the effort to redefine marriage in Maryland failed when the bill...Read More

The Catholic Review As is usually the case, churches across the Archdiocese were especially well attended this Ash Wednesday, a helpful sign that some Catholics whom we do not see at Mass too often are still aware of their faith. Please God, the Lord used the opportunity to draw them more closely into His life...Read More

The Catholic Review For many Catholics, there are some issues on which the Church’s teaching is difficult to accept. Immigration is seemingly one of these issues. Yet the underpinning for this teaching is the same that justifies our “position” on many other issues so often deemed obvious or “cut and dry” by the very same...Read More

The Catholic Review Last Sunday, at a mostly-full Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, hundreds of couples from throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore came together to celebrate the sacred call that is the vocation to married life. The special liturgy, occurring the same Sunday each February, marks our Church’s celebration of World Marriage Day and is...Read More