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In this week’s edition of The Catholic Review, I have a story about Archbishop O’Brien celebrating Mass with Catholic families who do homeschooling. Included in that story are the Hill family, who were are well know advocates for homeschool families and have done it for 30 years themselves. There are plenty of preconceived notions about […]

By the time August 2001 rolled around, I needed a full-time job and some cash. Post-college. I had been doing part-time sports work for the one of the country’s greatest newspapers, The Washington Post, for a year. I did whatever they asked: answer phones, gather sports agate, cover high school sports, write notebook roundups and […]

As a reporter for Baltimore’s Catholic Review last month, I traveled to Madrid for World Youth Day and was able to get several recordings of catechesis talks delivered by Archbishop Timothy Dolan. So, each night I would return to my hotel and upload the audio. The files have proven to be some of the most […]

LESHAN, China – A nun was severely beaten and hospitalized and a priest suffered minor injuries after being attacked while trying to reclaim two former church properties in southwestern Sichuan province.

(CR photo illustration/April Hornbeck) When terrorists attacked the United States 10 years ago this September, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was in Washington with 60 military chaplains. The archbishop, then the head of the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services, witnessed calls pour in from military commanders looking for their chaplains to minister to those in need. […]

The Baltimore Archdiocesan Holy Name Union celebrated its 58th annual baseball night with the Baltimore Orioles Aug. 5 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Nearly 200 Holy Name members and their families were in attendance.

Sacred Heart in Glyndon will host a Healing Mass on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 8 at 6:45 p.m. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and anointings will be offered and participants will also pray a novena to our Mother of Perpetual Help, the rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

Archbishop Jose H. Gomez (CR, Aug. 18 and 25) thinks this country is one of multiple cultures. Maybe we are, but we are most definitely a melting pot. A society where all our cultures assimilate into one (that of the United States of America), speaking one language (that of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), under one flag. Multiculturalism ensures those barriers that separate us stay erect, not like a melting pot, but like an egg carton.