Here’s a tease of my review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. “In the opening minutes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, it becomes brutally clear this is no longer a children’s story. It has been said that the world has watched Harry Potter and friends grow up before our eyes. I’d...Read More
Hello and welcome to Matt Palmer’s Catholic Review blog. Stay tuned for live coverage of the Baltimore Youth Catholic Conference from Ocean City, MD Nov. 19-21!Read More
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The head of a delegation of African church leaders visiting Sudan has urged the Sudanese government to respect the choice of the majority of the people of Southern Sudan in the Jan. 9 referendum that may split Africa’s largest country.Read More
The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s official inquiry into an alleged healing of a parishioner of St. Mary in Annapolis through the intercession of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos was finalized Sept. 25.Read More
WASHINGTON – With the U.S. solicitor general arguing in support of Arizona’s school tuition tax credit program, the Supreme Court justices Nov. 3 bounced back and forth between questions about the program’s constitutionality and whether the taxpayers who sued even have the legal standing to challenge it.Read More
By Christopher Gunty editor@CatholicReview.org BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The newest building at Bethlehem University, completed in the year 2000 and appropriately called the Millennium Building, was struck by shells fired by the Israelis. Other parts of the campus were hit as well. The damage has since been repaired, and other than the hole in the...Read More
Re the latest column by Tony Magliano, “Afghanistan: Longest U.S. War” (CR, Oct. 14), I’m sure many of your faithful Catholic readers object to the constant expressions of anti-American writings put forth by Magliano. His every thought seems to focus on the killing of Afghan civilians by American military. Our involvement in Afghanistan is a...Read More
The Western Wall had a great impact on several priests on our pilgrimage, as you’ll see in this reflection from Father Steve Hook. – CG Bishop Denis J. Madden prepares to celerate the fractioning rite during the Liturgy of the Eucharist in a Mass for a pilgrimage of priests from Maryland inside the Tomb of...Read More
CATONSVILLE – After three thwacks with a gold-colored hammer, Mother Celine de la Visitation still couldn’t poke a hole in a wall at St. Martin’s Home for the Aged.Read More
The priests in the group continue to share some of their reflections on the pilgrimage. Here’s a different perspective from Father Ty Hullinger. – CG A memorial monument outside the Yad Vadhem Holocaust History Museum in Israel. (Catholic Review photo | Christopher Gunty) “For me, one special pilgrimage encounter was our visit to Yad Vashem,...Read More