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Religious freedom case in Georgia pits public school board against Baptist pastor

There is conflict in Georgia over a release-time program in which students leave their regular classes during school days with parental approval to receive religious [...]
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Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the U.S.: A New Look at the Numbers

3,035 diocesan seminarians are preparing for priestly ordination in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, an increase of nearly 2% over the previous year, [...]
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Synod office releases “The Path of Implementation of the Synod” for 2028 ecclesial assembly

A new Vatican document outlines four stages for local Churches, bishops’ conferences, and continental bodies to assess how synodality is taking root after the 2021–2024 Synod on Synodality. […]
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The Saint who made peace with revolutionaries, pennilessness, and his mother

When he died on May 21, 1861, Charles-Eugène de Mazenod was mourned by French Catholics as a steadfast bishop, a zealous religious founder, and a [...]
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Agreement allows daily pastoral access at Illinois ICE facility, faith leaders say

A Chicago-based Catholic and Christian advocacy group said it has struck a deal allowing “daily pastoral visits” to a federal immigration facility in Broadview, Illinois. […]

Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the U.S.: A New Look at the Numbers

Analysis

J. J. Ziegler May 21, 2026 4

3,035 diocesan seminarians are preparing for priestly ordination in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, an increase of nearly 2% over the previous year, according to data published in the most recent (2025) edition [...]

The culture of death loses one—for the moment

Analysis

George Weigel May 20, 2026 11

Good news not being thick on the ground these days, I’m delighted to note some very good news from the mother country: on April 24, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill failed to [...]

Features

Bp. Louis Tylka: “This is a great moment for the Diocese of Peoria and the Church”

Jim Graves May 19, 2026 5

Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895-1979) will be beatified and receive the title of “Blessed” at a beatification Mass on Thursday, September 24, at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Sheen was among the [...]

Essay

The Human Person in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D. May 18, 2026 11

When Pope Leo XIV recently compared the rise of artificial intelligence to the Industrial Revolution, many immediately recognized the significance of the analogy.1 The comparison was not merely technological or economic, but deeply anthropological. Just as [...]

Analysis

The Scandalous Synod Report: A Betrayal of Trust

Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan May 17, 2026 52

Note: All quotes are from the Report and annexed testimonies, unless otherwise indicated. A Synod Study Group Report (“Report”) published in early May has drawn searing criticism and predictable plaudits for its “paradigm shift” towards same-sex sexual relationships. New reports that Fr. James [...]

Analysis

Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power in the Church

Dr. Randall B. Smith May 16, 2026 31

I continue to be puzzled by the language in the documents emerging from ecclesiastical bureaucrats. Who are these people talking to? Not “people of goodwill” around the world, nor the basic layman in the pew. [...]

Essay

The Blessed Virgin Mary and political life

Kenneth Craycraft May 15, 2026 9

Editor’s note: This essay was mistakenly attributed to the wrong author when first posted. I apologize for the error. As any reader of Catholic World Report knows very well, May is designated by the Church as the [...]

Essay

My Last Pope (Probably): Part Two of an Unusual and Very Catholic Travelogue

Amy Welborn May 14, 2026 6

Editor’s note: Part One of this essay can be read here. —————— Wait, we’re not home yet, though. The journey’s not over. Less than a week later, I was back in a car. A rental [...]

On the Germans, the SSPX, and the theological convictions of Pope Leo XIV

Larry Chapp May 13, 2026 75

On the anniversary of his election, and with a year of the papacy under his belt, it is fair to say that Pope Leo would make, as a friend of mine has stated, a “good [...]
The SSPX is now on a clear and direct collision course with Rome

Larry Chapp April 28, 2026 156
In gratitude for the Ordinariate

Larry Chapp April 8, 2026 59

Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 166

“Indeed it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity.” — Saint Augustine, Confessions (quoted in CCC 2340) “I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by [...]
The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 131
The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 151

Religious freedom case in Georgia pits public school board against Baptist pastor

Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the U.S.: A New Look at the Numbers

Synod office releases “The Path of Implementation of the Synod” for 2028 ecclesial assembly

The Saint who made peace with revolutionaries, pennilessness, and his mother

Agreement allows daily pastoral access at Illinois ICE facility, faith leaders say

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Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the U.S.: A New Look at the Numbers

The culture of death loses one—for the moment

Bp. Louis Tylka: “This is a great moment for the Diocese of Peoria and the Church”

The Human Person in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Scandalous Synod Report: A Betrayal of Trust

Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power in the Church

The Blessed Virgin Mary and political life

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