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Baltimore faith leaders call for peace and unity

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori joined faith leaders from across the city June 3 to pray for peace and healing after more than a week of nationwide protests and unrest in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers.

Paul McMullen | Catholic Review

June 3, 2020

Josephites mourn loss of priests to virus, express sorrow over Floyd death

Josephite Father Frank Martin Hull and Father Joseph John McKinley, who both had lived at the Josephite Senior Residence in Washington.

Mark Zimmerman

June 2, 2020

Baltimore faith leaders to hold prayer service for justice, healing June 3 at St. Vincent de Paul

Baltimore's religious leaders will join civic and community leaders in praying for justice and peace during a June 3 gathering beginning at 6 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul in Baltimore.

Catholic Review Staff

June 1, 2020

Feast of Pentecost marks return of public worship in Baltimore Archdiocese

Churches in Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford and Washington counties opened liturgies to the public, albeit at one-third capacity, per Archdiocese of Baltimore guidelines.

May 31, 2020

Archbishop Lori: Holy Spirit should shake out complacency over racism

Archbishop William E. Lori harkened back to the first Pentecost when the Holy Spirit shook the house where Jesus’ disciples had gathered and came with a fire of charity to consume every false idol.

Christopher Gunty | Catholic Review

May 29, 2020

For the brothers Bolger, the priesthood is a family affair

Father Justin Bolger – who grew up in Baltimore’s St. William of York Parish and later St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Libertytown – was ordained May 23, along with five others.

Blogs & Commentary

Charity in Truth

Archbishop William E. Lori

An inward pilgrimage with Mary

May we indeed persevere, in this and in every time of trial, so that one day we may reign with Christ in the presence of Mary Our Queen.

Amen

Christopher Gunty | Catholic Review

Are our hearts ready to reopen?

You think it’s been hard for you to find disinfecting wipes for your home? Think of finding enough disinfectant for church pews that seat hundreds of people. You’ve had problems finding a small bottle of hand sanitizer? Multiply those needs by 100 or 1,000.

Open Window

Longing for an end to the school year and enjoying some stay-at-home fun (7 Quick Takes)

Rita Buettner

We are done with school, but school isn’t done with us. That’s been true for weeks, but it’s never been as true as it is today.

Faces of Faith

This church ‘go-getter’ inspires a new generation of volunteers

“You know that actions speak louder than words. And people can be a testimony to their faith just by what they do and not by what they say,” Hoban said.

Question Corner

Sex in heaven?/ Feeling need for forgiveness

Father Kenneth Doyle

Is there sex in heaven? How can one find forgiveness? Question Corner has answers.

Word on Fire

The quarantine’s three lessons about the Church

Bishop Robert Barron

So Catholics, don’t get discouraged. Rather, use this time of deprivation and abstention to awaken a deeper love for the Church in its Eucharistic, symbiotic, and incarnational distinctiveness.

The Domestic Church

The one who loved us first

Rita Buettner

God is love. He loved us first – and loves us forever. He knows us best, seeing deep within us to all we are and all we can be. He sees us and loves us fully. He holds us – and the past, present and future – in his hands.

Guest Commentary

Pentecost: Rest In Power

Deacon Evan Ponton

The Church, in the powerful peace and peaceful power of the Spirit, will get her public witness back when she finds her way again like the first disciples to breathe deep and speak fire.

The Narthex

George P. Matysek Jr. | Catholic Review

Remembering Father Hull

Father Hull was an immense storehouse of knowledge and sharp as a tack even as he pushed 100.

Dust and Dewfall

Knowing his voice

Father Collin Poston

If we know the voice of the Lord Jesus well, and we continue to respond to it, then we know what follows it: an abiding peace and confident hope that cannot be taken away.

Baltimore Boomer

Paul McMullen | Catholic Review

Grateful, for a relatively uneventful Holy Week, and my primary caregiver

Two years after quadruple bypass heart surgery, appreciation for caregivers grows, but still begins in the home.

The Catholic Difference

Rediscovering baptism in plague time

George Weigel

Let me urge you again: make this time of plague and quarantine the occasion to dig the “Catholic paper” out of your records, find your baptismal certificate, and learn the date of your baptism. And then, with appropriate celebration, ponder just what happened to you that day.

Behind the Headlines

Christopher Gunty | Catholic Review

Touchpoints with a saint’s life

As we mark the centenary of the birth of Karol Wojtyla, who became St. John Paul II, it caused me to reflect on moments of my life that intersected with the man who was pope for a great chunk of my life and career in Catholic journalism.

Our Back Pages

Paul McMullen | Catholic Review

1918 flu pandemic took heavy toll

The death toll included at least two priests from the Archdiocese of Baltimore and two Religious Sisters of Mercy.

Snippets of FAith

Drawing strength from those before us

Suzanna Molino Singleton

Forget the hair, go back to your family roots.

Wit & Wisdom

Belief and life

Father Joseph Breighner

We do not live in a morally neutral universe. Good and evil, life and death, do contend with each other.

Unconditional

You can’t play basketball over Zoom: a second grader’s take on virtual communication

Robyn Barberry

Social distancing can be miserable, but at the very least we have each other.

Diamonds in the Rough

Father T. Austin Murphy Jr.

Discipleship – There’s an app for that!

Rather than connecting some pop culture offering of this moment, I want to promote The Chosen because I want to promote Jesus and discipleship.

World News

June 5, 2020

Knights ask Catholics to pray novena for national unity, end to racism

The Knights of Columbus called on the nation's Catholics to participate in a novena beginning June 7 to pray for national unity and an end to racism amid the unrest following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.

Catholic News Service

China makes preaching patriotism compulsory to reopen churches

Catholics are upset about a directive from China's communist government asking priests to "preach on patriotism" as a condition for reopening liturgical services, suspended earlier this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Catholic News Service

After ‘taking a knee,’ border bishop gets a call from the pope

"The Holy Father said that he wanted to congratulate me for the words I am saying," Bishop Seitz said,

Rhina Guidos

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