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Just because it’s March Madness doesn’t mean you have to go crazy with food. Millions of Americans will be munching on potato chips, gooey dips, chicken wings and more – washing it down with beer and soda. But what’s really in those foods? Take a look. It might make you switch to celery sticks and water.

Father Joseph McDonough figured it’d be a routine procedure.

Readers of The Catholic Review were lucky to have Daniel Medinger as editor of the newspaper for nearly 25 years, “Amazing Run” (CR, Feb. 19). His first priority was always news from parishes and schools that would be of interest and value to readers.

Re “The Common Good” by Father Peter J. Daly (CR, March 12), I have lived my life with the attitude of looking out for the next guy and believe most people do the same. Saying that, I have to agree with CNBC commentator Rick Santelli and the so-called risk-taking commodities traders.

Recent letters to the editor discussed the goal of making Catholic schools “affordable and accessible” to non-Catholics. Donald Reitz (CR, March 12) raises several issues. Is it prejudicial to deny non-Catholics access to Catholic schools? Of course, it is – otherwise public taxes would be used to fund Catholic schools and they would be called public schools. Should any student valuing a religious education be entitled to attend Catholic schools? Are we asking Catholic parishioners to “give just a little bit more” to encourage students to be good Baptists, Lutherans, Muslims, etc? Isn’t that the purpose of churches, synagogues and mosques? If evangelizing of the Catholic faith is the objective (as I assume is meant by Donald Reitz), then it seems appropriate to evaluate such a program against the stress put upon the Catholic school system by trying to make it “affordable and accessible” to all.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon’s annual report on assisted suicide showed that doctors helped 60 patients take their lives in 2008. That marked the highest annual total since the Oregon Death With Dignity Act went into effect 11 years ago.

Two life issues are taking front and center for the Maryland Catholic Conference (MCC) as the Maryland General Assembly enters its final weeks of the 90-day session.