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Pursuing peace, addressing extremism in Nigeria: An interview with Fr. Atta Barkindo

Fr. Atta Barkindo, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Kukah Centre, has been appointed to a high-level expert team tasked by Nigeria’s Office of the National [...]
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Synodality Will Kill Catholicism (The Catholic Thing): “The Catholic Church has always distinguished itself from other Christian bodies by its claim to possess, and be [...]
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The best film ever?

1966 was a great year for movies, and six decades later, the five nominated for “Best Picture” at the 39th Academy Awards the following year are [...]
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Musings on the Church of England and the “ordination” of women

The vast Lambeth Palace Library is bleak from the outside: a blank wall facing the Thames opposite Westminster. I still feel that it has a [...]
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Harvard chaplain discusses ‘record-breaking’ number of conversions at the university

Paralleling trends elsewhere, at Harvard University more young people than ever are joining the Catholic Church. […]

Pursuing peace, addressing extremism in Nigeria: An interview with Fr. Atta Barkindo

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Ngala Killian Chimtom August 26, 2026 1

Fr. Atta Barkindo, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Kukah Centre, has been appointed to a high-level expert team tasked by Nigeria’s Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) with developing a comprehensive National Peace Framework. [...]

Babel today

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James Kalb August 24, 2026 31

At its highest levels, political life today is an attempt to reach heaven through purely human means—that is, to construct Babel. That attempt is partly motivated by institutional interests, but at bottom has to do [...]

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Unbroken: News from the Church in China

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. August 23, 2026 12

Sitting in the room with Chinese priests and nuns is always an exercise of patient listening and reading between the lines. Sometimes—it is not typically characteristic of Chinese culture to speak directly—someone is blunt. That [...]

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Winnowing Weasel Words

Tracey Rowland August 22, 2026 56

Popes have long been political players on the world stage. In recent times, John Paul II worked with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan to bring down the Berlin Wall. Benedict XVI addressed a joint sitting [...]

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“Adore Him” combines history and testimony in promoting Eucharistic adoration

Jim Graves August 21, 2026 3

Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry, a Catholic evangelization apostolate founded and led by Deacon Steve Greco, director of evangelization and formation for the Diocese of Orange in California, has produced a film titled “Adore Him”. It is [...]

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New YOUCAT Love Forever is “a guide to formation for married love”

Sean Salai August 20, 2026 3

Mark Brumley is the president of Ignatius Press, one of the nation’s biggest U.S. Catholic publishers and multimedia distributors, and also the publisher of the Catholic World Report. He holds a Master’s degree in theology [...]

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Florida’s Catholic Attorney General, Bishops Face Off Over Vaccines

Monica Seeley August 19, 2026 125

Florida is a “school choice” state, allowing parents to pay for private school tuition with state-funded education savings accounts. But Catholic school children in the state are not given a choice enjoyed by their public [...]

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Islamist persecution, Christian survival, and encountering the Houthis in Yemen

David Pinault August 17, 2026 27

I was idling in my room at the Arabia Felix, drinking Orange Fanta and eyeing geckos on the wall, when a message came from the lobby. I’d been granted the meeting I was hoping for [...]

Babel today

James Kalb August 24, 2026 31

At its highest levels, political life today is an attempt to reach heaven through purely human means—that is, to construct Babel. That attempt is partly motivated by institutional interests, but at bottom has to do [...]
Unbroken: News from the Church in China

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. August 23, 2026 12
Does Magnifica Humanitas help explain how social teaching should be understood today?

James Kalb August 12, 2026 37

Reading Saint Paul in a Time of Synodality

Carl E. Olson August 6, 2026 20

“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...]
Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 180
The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 131

Pursuing peace, addressing extremism in Nigeria: An interview with Fr. Atta Barkindo

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