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Continuity and Clarification: On Pope Leo, Pope Francis, and Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas (MH), has received considerable attention, including from sources not ordinarily interested in papal documents. The reason is understandable, [...]
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California imposes on religious instruction in child care facilities

A recent challenge to religious freedom can be found in Foothills Christian Ministries v. Johnson. At issue were regulations implementing California’s Child Day Care Act, which, in requiring all [...]
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The Gospel of the Trinity: “God is Love”

Readings: • Ex 34:4B-6, 8-9 • Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 • 2 Cor 13:11-13 • Jn 3:16-18 “The divine nature,” wrote St. Thomas [...]
Essay

Rediscovering Joan of Arc

As she was being led to the stake to be executed, most of the hostile crowd thought she was a witch. Yet, by the time [...]
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My Heart for Yours: A review of Sacred Heart: His Reign Has No End

From time immemorial, the heart has been the organ of the divine. While the head processes information, the heart gives life to the body by [...]

Continuity and Clarification: On Pope Leo, Pope Francis, and Magnifica Humanitas

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Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. May 30, 2026 1

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas (MH), has received considerable attention, including from sources not ordinarily interested in papal documents. The reason is understandable, given the attention it gives to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Pope [...]

Rediscovering Joan of Arc

Essay

Dawn Beutner May 29, 2026 17

As she was being led to the stake to be executed, most of the hostile crowd thought she was a witch. Yet, by the time Joan of Arc had been burned alive on May 30, [...]

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Why I think Magnifica Humanitas is a pointed and prophetic gut punch

Larry Chapp May 27, 2026 35

Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is a pointed and prophetic gut punch. Don’t be fooled by the usual “ecclesial-speak” argot of the text. When read carefully and closely, what emerges is a blunt, and even [...]

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Magnifica Humanitas: The Human Person Between Glory and Fragility

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. May 26, 2026 7

There are many newsworthy dimensions to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. If you’ve followed the Holy Father’s homilies, catecheses, and public addresses, the broad direction of the document is not surprising. Even so, [...]

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Magnifica Humanitas: Pope invokes justice to combat ‘anti-human vision’ in AI

Hannah Brockhaus May 25, 2026 15

Published Monday, the pope’s new encyclical warns of a “culture of power” fueled by the digital revolution and artificial intelligence. […]

Essay

The Virgin Mary’s Message to Nigeria

Muji Kaiser May 24, 2026 33

The persecution of Christians currently taking place in Nigeria was foretold by the Blessed Virgin Mary in a church-approved apparition that many have never heard of. In 1992, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young [...]

Essay

Pentecost and the priesthood

Peter M.J. Stravinskas May 24, 2026 21

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 2026, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City. Wind, fire, thunder, and lightning. The Sacred Scriptures are replete with [...]

Essay

Sex and Catholic Social Teaching

Helen M. Alvaré May 23, 2026 108

As someone who has long labored in the service of the Catholic Church’s teachings on fraught sexual expression topics, I think I understand Pope Leo XIV’s recent remarks on Catholic sexual morality in response to [...]

Why I think Magnifica Humanitas is a pointed and prophetic gut punch

Larry Chapp May 27, 2026 35

Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is a pointed and prophetic gut punch. Don’t be fooled by the usual “ecclesial-speak” argot of the text. When read carefully and closely, what emerges is a blunt, and even [...]
Magnifica Humanitas: The Human Person Between Glory and Fragility

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. May 26, 2026 7
On the Germans, the SSPX, and the theological convictions of Pope Leo XIV

Larry Chapp May 13, 2026 79

Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 169

“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

Continuity and Clarification: On Pope Leo, Pope Francis, and Magnifica Humanitas

California imposes on religious instruction in child care facilities

The Gospel of the Trinity: “God is Love”

Rediscovering Joan of Arc

My Heart for Yours: A review of Sacred Heart: His Reign Has No End

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