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Ecclesia in Africa at 30: Cardinal Ambongo calls it an ‘urgent’ roadmap for the continent’s Church

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, the Archbishop of Kinshasa and President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), recently emphasized the enduring [...]
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Poet, martyr, and Saint: On the remarkable talent and inspiring faith of Robert Southwell

Every martyr’s death is different. When Bishop John Fisher of Rochester was brought to Tower Hill to be executed for treason against King Henry VIII, [...]
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Through the desert, back to the Tree of Life

Readings: • Gen 2:7-9; 3:1-7 • Ps 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17 • Rom 5:12-19 or 5:12, 17-19 • Mt 4:1-11 Several years ago, I was [...]
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Gates of Heaven is the daring conclusion of an unusual, powerful Catholic trilogy

In his most recent novel, Gates of Heaven (2025, Wiseblood Books), Glenn Arbery wraps up the complex, fraught, and evocative chronicle of friends, families, and foes working [...]
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Archbishop declares nullity of marriage between 2 transgender persons in Argentina

The archbishop of Corrientes, Argentina, José Adolfo Larregain, confirmed that the marriage between two transgender persons, which took place in January in the archdiocese, has [...]

Gates of Heaven is the daring conclusion of an unusual, powerful Catholic trilogy

Books

Amy Welborn February 20, 2026 0

In his most recent novel, Gates of Heaven (2025, Wiseblood Books), Glenn Arbery wraps up the complex, fraught, and evocative chronicle of friends, families, and foes working out their salvation in the contemporary American South and West. [...]

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Kenneth Craycraft February 19, 2026 3

The three pillars of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—must always be our primary focus during these forty days. The purpose—or end—of these disciplines is to grow closer to God through spiritual and corporal works. While we [...]

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Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

Marcus Peter February 18, 2026 59

As the nation marks Jesse Jackson’s death at age 84, I realize that the temptation will be either to canonize the man as an icon of civil rights sainthood or to dismiss him as a [...]

Essay

Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

Peter M.J. Stravinskas February 17, 2026 14

Since all human sin has its origins in that “original” sin of our first parents, let’s go back to that very beginning. […]

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The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

J. J. Ziegler February 15, 2026 1

In the eleventh canto of his Paradiso, Dante wrote that there “rose upon the world a sun,” a man who shone with love for Lady Poverty, as no man had since Christ: She, reft of her first [...]

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Head of U.S. bishops joins call for Notre Dame to drop appointment of pro-abortion professor

Daniel Payne February 14, 2026 41

The school has indicated it will stick by its decision for Professor Susan Ostermann to lead a university institute. […]

Features

Church kidnappings plague Nigeria as clerics declare nation a “failed state”

Ngala Killian Chimtom February 13, 2026 4

A wave of terror has swept through central Nigeria, marked by a series of brazen kidnappings and killings. The most recent incident occurred on February 6, when gunmen abducted nine teenage worshippers during a night [...]

Essay

The memory of a Vianney-like priest lay hidden in the West Virginia mountains

Kevin Wells February 12, 2026 16

Few coal miners wanted anything to do with the stranger in the black cassock who arrived in town in 1933. It was the Great Depression in West Virginia—food was scarce and shifts were irregular. So [...]

Making sense of Donald Trump

James Kalb February 2, 2026 237

We live in unusual times, and Donald Trump is, to put it mildly, an unusual politician. We need to understand him to deal with him, and with that in mind, I will present my own [...]
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and the road to recovery

Andrew Petiprin January 31, 2026 2
Modernism revisited and ressourcement theology defended

Larry Chapp January 29, 2026 86

The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 126

Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s [...]
The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 151
The Future of Synodality

Carl E. Olson September 7, 2025 56

Ecclesia in Africa at 30: Cardinal Ambongo calls it an ‘urgent’ roadmap for the continent’s Church

Poet, martyr, and Saint: On the remarkable talent and inspiring faith of Robert Southwell

Through the desert, back to the Tree of Life

Gates of Heaven is the daring conclusion of an unusual, powerful Catholic trilogy

Archbishop declares nullity of marriage between 2 transgender persons in Argentina

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Gates of Heaven is the daring conclusion of an unusual, powerful Catholic trilogy

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Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

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The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

Head of U.S. bishops joins call for Notre Dame to drop appointment of pro-abortion professor

Church kidnappings plague Nigeria as clerics declare nation a “failed state”

The memory of a Vianney-like priest lay hidden in the West Virginia mountains

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Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

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The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

Church kidnappings plague Nigeria as clerics declare nation a “failed state”

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