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What St. Josemaría Escrivá’s detractors can teach us about him and about holiness

Not every saint is universally esteemed at the time of his or her death. False accusations from a hostile priest stained the reputation of Saint [...]
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UN envoy says Nigeria is suffering because of radical Islam, political corruption

Yaoundé: The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Nazila Ghanea, has offered a sobering assessment of freedom of religion in Nigeria, saying [...]
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On the incoherence of the SSPX paradigm

Much of the recent commentary on the SSPX has stayed on the theological, moral, canonical, and historical planes, with a notable exception: Dr. Caterina Lorenzo-Molo’s [...]
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Catholic bishop of Northampton charged with child rape

The diocese of Northampton in England has confirmed that Bishop David James Oakley was charged with two counts of rape against a female under 16. […]
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The Promise and Peril of Religious Freedom for Catholics in America

Even before the founding of the United States, America was known as a land of liberty, particularly for religious minorities fleeing persecution. This included Catholics, [...]

What St. Josemaría Escrivá’s detractors can teach us about him and about holiness

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Dawn Beutner June 26, 2026 1

Not every saint is universally esteemed at the time of his or her death. False accusations from a hostile priest stained the reputation of Saint John of the Cross for decades after he died. Soon-to-be [...]

What Truths Do We Hold? A Response to Questions and Critics

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Kenneth Craycraft June 24, 2026 22

My June 9, 2026, essay, “Celebrating* 250 Years of American Mythology?,” has drawn over a hundred comments. As often happens in the comments section of any online forum, the majority of these are people arguing [...]

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New collection of Augusto Del Noce essays explain dynamics of Marxism, Fascism

Dr. Thomas R. Rourke June 22, 2026 13

The Suicide of the Revolution is the newest installment of Carlo Lancellotti’s project of translating and editing the works of Augusto Del Noce into English, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in Montreal.1 It is an attempt [...]

Features

Celebrating Islam in an Archdiocese of Decline

Timothy D. Lusch June 21, 2026 249

On the evening of June 6th—the Vigil of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ—Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger joined Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Imam Fadhel Al-Sahlani (representative of the Shia Grand Ayatollah [...]

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The Confessions of Monsignor Paglia and the Crossroads for Moral Catholic Theology

Monsignor Livio Melina June 19, 2026 53

In an interview granted to Settimana News on May 21, 2026, Bishop Vincenzo Paglia claimed a decisive role in the dissolution of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family and its replacement [...]

Columns

The challenge of applying Catholic social teaching

James Kalb June 18, 2026 24

Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, which, he had prophesied, was doomed to end in catastrophe. He lived without worldly ties: without a job, wife, children, steady source of income, [...]

Features

AI Humans and the Real Limits of Machines

Dr. Randall B. Smith June 17, 2026 13

I read recently in The Atlantic Monthly that artificial intelligence firms are hiring and paying big salaries to philosophers to help them think through the issues facing the developers of AI. They can send me a check, [...]

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The SSPX leadership against Scripture and Tradition

George Weigel June 17, 2026 178

The Holy See has declared that, if the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) proceeds with the ordination of bishops in July without a papal mandate, those involved in these illicit ordinations are automatically (latae sententiae) excommunicated — [...]

The challenge of applying Catholic social teaching

James Kalb June 18, 2026 24

Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, which, he had prophesied, was doomed to end in catastrophe. He lived without worldly ties: without a job, wife, children, steady source of income, [...]
Catholic morality and social concerns

James Kalb June 2, 2026 50
Why I think Magnifica Humanitas is a pointed and prophetic gut punch

Larry Chapp May 27, 2026 82

Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 176

“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

What St. Josemaría Escrivá’s detractors can teach us about him and about holiness

UN envoy says Nigeria is suffering because of radical Islam, political corruption

On the incoherence of the SSPX paradigm

Catholic bishop of Northampton charged with child rape

The Promise and Peril of Religious Freedom for Catholics in America

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What St. Josemaría Escrivá’s detractors can teach us about him and about holiness

What Truths Do We Hold? A Response to Questions and Critics

New collection of Augusto Del Noce essays explain dynamics of Marxism, Fascism

Celebrating Islam in an Archdiocese of Decline

The Confessions of Monsignor Paglia and the Crossroads for Moral Catholic Theology

The challenge of applying Catholic social teaching

AI Humans and the Real Limits of Machines

The SSPX leadership against Scripture and Tradition

Columns

The challenge of applying Catholic social teaching

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Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Is a Schism in the Air? An interview with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller

“We have lived a lie for 65 years”: Bishop Bushu on Cameroon’s deep divisions

“My missionary life was an adventure of the heart”: An interview with Fr. Barry Martinson, S.J.

New collection of Augusto Del Noce essays explain dynamics of Marxism, Fascism

Second volume of Justice Scalia biography portrays a unique “founder”

“My missionary life was an adventure of the heart”: An interview with Fr. Barry Martinson, S.J.

What St. Josemaría Escrivá’s detractors can teach us about him and about holiness

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The Confessions of Monsignor Paglia and the Crossroads for Moral Catholic Theology

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Polygamy remains a point of contention with the Church in many African nations

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