The Catholic Review was recently honored by the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association, the Catholic Press Association and the Associated Church Press.Read More

Yesterday afternoon we invited my parents and my sister and her four children to come for dinner. The children played until it was getting dark, and then we invited them to stay for fireworks.I tried not to overpromise. We don’t set off our own fireworks. We also don’t travel anywhereRead More

We live so close to Washington, D.C., that it’s a little embarrassing that we’ve never really taken our children there. So, when my father, sister, and her four children decided to make a day trip to D.C. on Thursday, our boys and I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to tag along.IndependenceRead More

Master Sgt. Pablo H. Villescas was serving with the Army Reserve in Afghanistan when that country held its first free, direct elections.Read More

A Vatican official told a U.N. gathering the pope is calling on all societies to examine how they produce and consume goods.Read More

Catholics and other members of the Asbury Park community remain shaken by the murder of a Catholic mother of nine who was a popular religious educator and a revered parish leader. More than two weeks after her death they are still trying to make sense of the tragedy and the violence that took the life...Read More

Any movie plot that hangs on the ability of an adult character to journey into the past to give vital advice to himself as a child is bound to register as somewhat convoluted.Read More

A funeral Mass for Sister Judith O’Neill of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia was to be offered July 7 in Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Judith, a professed Sister of St. Francis for 63 years, died June 29. She was 84.Read More