Catholic Review, Author at Archdiocese of Baltimore

January 12, 2016

Bigger fight against assisted suicide in Maryland expected in 2016

It never emerged from committee for a vote last year, but the push to legalize doctor-assisted suicide in Maryland is back.

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January 12, 2016

Interfaith rally at St. Ignatius demands paid sick leave for this year

Representatives of several faiths gathered at St. Ignatius in Baltimore to push for the passage of paid sick leave this year.

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January 11, 2016

Picture this: The night I forgot to do my kindergarten homework

Our evening was going beautifully.For dinner I tried a new cream of roasted tomato soup recipe using an immersion blender, and it turned out really well.I was feeling so proud of myself that I decided instead of running to the store to grab some store-bought dessert to contribute to tomorrow’s

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January 11, 2016

The church as peacemaker

Religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular have a historical reputation for inspiring wars and violence. Critics incessantly cite the Crusades as an example of this bellicose sentiment even though they were not led by the church nor initiated by the church. The Crusades began when the Byzantine

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January 11, 2016

Church’s credibility found in showing mercy, pope says in new book

Being ministers of God's mercy, church members overcome "prejudice and rigidity," taking risks like Jesus did, Pope Francis said.

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January 11, 2016

2016 General Assembly Preview: Education tax credit back on front burner

Passage of the education tax credit is one of the Maryland Catholic Conference's top priorities in 2016.

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January 11, 2016

Father Joseph Mary Marshall, S.M., 61, was former pastoral associate

Father Marshall served at St. Jerome in Baltimore and St. Joseph in Sykesville.

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January 8, 2016

Modern-day popes bravely meet the press: anarchists, atheists, apostles

Pope Francis, who has given the most interviews of any pope in history, is not the only pontiff to address the press.

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January 7, 2016

Embracing a resolution that will last

Imagining change is easy. Implementing change is difficult. That’s why I question most resolutions. What you want is probably a good thing, but to reach that goal, you need to think of the journey as much as the destination.

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January 7, 2016

French bishops ask what has been learned since Charlie Hebdo attacks

One year after the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the nation’s bishops emphasized that religions must live and work together in society.

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January 7, 2016

Fordham professor’s slim volume offers insights on Flannery O’Connor

In eight brief chapters, “Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith” presents both the story of O’Connor’s life and the story of how she became, O’Donnell writes, “perhaps the most celebrated American Catholic writer of the 20th century – and justly so.”

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January 7, 2016

Maryknoll Sister Helen Scheel, Baltimore native who worked for justice, dies at 87

Maryknoll Sister Helen Scheel, a Baltimore native who taught in the western United States and returned to her hometown to work for a third world advocacy project, died Jan. 4 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, N.Y

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