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KERICHO, Kenya – A Kericho court has sentenced three people to death for the 2009 murder of Irish Kiltegan Father Jeremiah Roche.

MADRID- If you weren’t here in Madrid for World Youth Day Mass, you missed a truly insightful homily by New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan. It was a masterful teaching of the faith and history. And now, you don’t need to miss it anymore. I recorded it and it’s below in an mp3 steam. Enjoy!

MADRID- I’m currently editing a question and answer session between Baltimore’s Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s World Youth Day contingent and Mount de Sales’ group. That’ll be in mp3 audio format. These are his closing comments to them. He even leads them in song.

MADRID- Here ya go. I’ve got tons more to upload today and share with you. Keep it here and follow us on twitter at @catholicreview to know when blogs and multimedia get uploaded.

MADRID- When Pope Benedict arrived in Madrid for his World Youth Day welcome address Thursday, Baltimore was at the front of the line. Want to see how good of a view we had? Check out this awesome video filmed by Will Warner, a parishioner of The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. Will is an insanely […]

Wanna hear something cool? Check out all the music and voices that make up the march into the World Youth Day vigil and Mass site, Cuantro Vientos.

MADRID- Three weeks ago today, I got down on one knee on the campus of St. Mary’s parish in Annapolis, looked at my girlfriend of two years and asked her to marry me. Today, as I, and more than one million people in Madrid, was blessed by Pope Benedict XVI, I thought of Cassandra. I […]

MADRID- If Katie Bechtel’s reaction at the end doesn’t get your eyes wet at the end, I don’t know what will. She got to sit close to the stage during last night’s vigil here in Madrid for World Youth Day. Enjoy.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore's pilgrims (plus me in the bottom middle!) after the final Mass at World Youth Day (Photo by Matt Palmer/The Catholic Review) MADRID- We finished Mass with the Pope about two hours ago and the great upload begins. I have to work on a series of stories for The Catholic Review and […]

MADRID- Pretty, pretty frenzied. I’ve never seen anything like it. The kids love “Benedicto” and “Il Papa.” Get a taste of how Baltimore anticipated him.

MADRID- Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s going to speak to the pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Mount de Sales and St. Mary’s High School tomorrow afternoon at World Youth Day to hear about their experiences, but I wanted to share this small snippet of his interactions with them today after the U.S. Mass. We join […]