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Africa’s second exodus:

Africa’s second exodus: African priest exposes a multi-million-dollar syndicate luring desperate youth to fight for Russia Ngala Killian Chimtom, Catholic World Report,Yaounde When reports confirmed [...]
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Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions

Readings: • Mt. 21:1-11 • Isa. 50:4-7 • Psa. 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil. 2:6-11 • Mt. 26:14-27:66 When hearing a passage as dramatic [...]
Analysis

A Question of Perspective: Who Gets Fired and Why?

It has been ranked “as among the most significant developments in moral theology in the past fifty years.” This was how the late Fr. Richard [...]
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Opinion: A Cautious Case for the Iran War

The present war with Iran has been negatively appraised by many Catholics. Some of the arguments advanced by these critics are of poor quality, characterized [...]
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Opinion: Reclaiming the culture that made us Catholic

For too long, Catholics in the United States—myself included—have treated the Church as an extension of our political identities, a sociological distortion that has carried [...]

A Question of Perspective: Who Gets Fired and Why?

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Dr. Randall B. Smith March 27, 2026 4

It has been ranked “as among the most significant developments in moral theology in the past fifty years.” This was how the late Fr. Richard McCormick described Catholic University of America’s decision in 1988 to [...]

The Left’s cancellation of Cesar Chavez looks bad either way

Features

David Paul Deavel March 26, 2026 40

Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared in AMAC’s “Newsline” and is reposted here with kind permission Though the power of the #MeToo movement peaked long ago, the Left’s cancellation machine kicked into gear this past [...]

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Flannery O’Connor’s “both/and” vision of reality

Matthew Becklo March 25, 2026 23

In the wake of Flannery O’Connor’s death on March 25, 1965, the Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton said, “When I read Flannery O’Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, [...]

Books

Introducing Communio Theology: An interview with Tracey Rowland

Carl E. Olson March 24, 2026 9

Tracey Rowland holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Australia). She received her PhD from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and her STL and STD [...]

Essay

Cardinal Newman: Doctor of Catholic Education, Part Two

Peter M.J. Stravinskas March 23, 2026 2

Editor’s note: The following is Part Two of an address given to The Thomistic Institute of Fordham University on February 26, 2026 (read Part One). 3. Does a Catholic university have a distinctive curriculum? John Paul [...]

Columns

Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. March 22, 2026 5

It’s no secret that we are inhabiting a moment in which digitalization is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace. Day by day, screens, algorithms, and infrastructures of virtual reality are becoming the dominant frame [...]

Features

The Gift of Down Syndrome

Monica Seeley March 21, 2026 11

Today is the best of all times to be born with Down Syndrome, and the worst of all times. In the United States, some 76 percent of children diagnosed with the genetic disorder in utero [...]

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An unprecedented papal visit approaches in Saint Augustine’s homeland

R. Cavanaugh March 19, 2026 7

The Vatican has announced that, as part of his upcoming African tour, Pope Leo XIV will visit Algeria on April 13-15. No acting pontiff has ever visited Algeria, a former stronghold of ancient Christianity whose [...]

Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. March 22, 2026 5

It’s no secret that we are inhabiting a moment in which digitalization is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace. Day by day, screens, algorithms, and infrastructures of virtual reality are becoming the dominant frame [...]
On Tracey Rowland’s important Introduction to Communio Theology

Larry Chapp March 12, 2026 24
Immigration, enforcement, and Catholics

James Kalb March 2, 2026 77

The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 131

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

Africa’s second exodus:

Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions

A Question of Perspective: Who Gets Fired and Why?

Opinion: A Cautious Case for the Iran War

Opinion: Reclaiming the culture that made us Catholic

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A Question of Perspective: Who Gets Fired and Why?

The Left’s cancellation of Cesar Chavez looks bad either way

Flannery O’Connor’s “both/and” vision of reality

Introducing Communio Theology: An interview with Tracey Rowland

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An unprecedented papal visit approaches in Saint Augustine’s homeland

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