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Judge bans statues of St. Florian, Michael the Archangel from public safety building

There is controversy in Massachusetts, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, with Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom From [...]
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Opinion: The destructive culture of persona and the increasing loss of character

California has always sold itself as the place where people can invent or reinvent who they are. And it is within that culture of “borrowed [...]
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“Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creatures”

What happened in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary can and must happen in our own lives. Each of us has received the Holy […]
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Blessed Sacrament stolen from Nigerian adoration chapel

The Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, in southern Nigeria, has declared a week of prayer in reparation following the disturbing desecration of the Adoration Chapel at [...]
Essay

My Last Pope (Probably): Part One of an Unusual and Very Catholic Travelogue

A few days after Pope Francis died, I drove from Alabama to Wyoming. The ostensible reason for the journey was not to sit mobile shiva [...]

My Last Pope (Probably): Part One of an Unusual and Very Catholic Travelogue

Essay

Amy Welborn May 9, 2026 10

A few days after Pope Francis died, I drove from Alabama to Wyoming. The ostensible reason for the journey was not to sit mobile shiva for the dead pontiff, but simply the delivery of my [...]

Unity has been the master theme of Pope Leo XIV’s first year

Essay

Matthew Becklo May 7, 2026 27

In the weeks leading up to the conclave that would elect Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost, the New York Times published an article with the headline: “As Cardinals Prepare to Elect a Pope, One Motto Is ‘Unity.’ [...]

Features

Homosexuality and Authentic Freedom

Dr. Mark Lowery May 6, 2026 96

The tragic impasse that exists in our culture on the issue of homosexuality stems from two errors. […]

Features

Opinion: Speaking the truth about the Pope and politics

John Clark May 5, 2026 97

In 1938, Monsignor Fulton Sheen wrote, “There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the [...]

Essay

Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation

Thomas P. Harmon May 4, 2026 16

There is a movement afoot in American education to restore the teaching of civics in a way that presents America as lovable and worthy of its citizens’ service. The most prominent places to see this [...]

Features

“As people of faith, we know a better world is possible,”: Groups plea for end of Sudanese crisis

Ngala Killian Chimtom May 3, 2026 23

(CWR, Yaoundé) As the conflict in Sudan enters its fourth year, major faith-based organizations are uniting to demand immediate international action to protect civilians. In an April 15th statement, groups including ACT Alliance, Caritas Internationalis, [...]

Features

Former federal prosecutor: ‘I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit’

Tyler Arnold May 2, 2026 59

The Senate Judiciary Committee released the texts by ex-prosecutors who were dismissed shortly after Donald Trump returned to the presidency. […]

Analysis

Is the Church dying or reviving?

David Paul Deavel April 30, 2026 18

What is going on in the Church in America? Is She singing a swan song, or is She rising again from the ashes like the legendary phoenix? In the spirit of legendary Yankee catcher Yogi [...]

The SSPX is now on a clear and direct collision course with Rome

Larry Chapp April 28, 2026 149

The Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Fr. Davide Pagliarani, has recently given a lengthy interview in which he lays out his case for why the Society is justified in defying [...]
In gratitude for the Ordinariate

Larry Chapp April 8, 2026 56
How much emphasis on politics? And to what end?

James Kalb April 7, 2026 43

Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 158

“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

Judge bans statues of St. Florian, Michael the Archangel from public safety building

Opinion: The destructive culture of persona and the increasing loss of character

“Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creatures”

Blessed Sacrament stolen from Nigerian adoration chapel

My Last Pope (Probably): Part One of an Unusual and Very Catholic Travelogue

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My Last Pope (Probably): Part One of an Unusual and Very Catholic Travelogue

Unity has been the master theme of Pope Leo XIV’s first year

Homosexuality and Authentic Freedom

Opinion: Speaking the truth about the Pope and politics

Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation

“As people of faith, we know a better world is possible,”: Groups plea for end of Sudanese crisis

Former federal prosecutor: ‘I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit’

Is the Church dying or reviving?

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The SSPX is now on a clear and direct collision course with Rome

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Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

“God is alive and well in the modern medical center”

Amid war and migration, Pope Leo XIV to bring message of religious freedom to North Africa

Disenchantment or Desecration? An interview with Carl R. Trueman

A new history of the unrecognized martyrs of the Christian militia orders

“God is alive and well in the modern medical center”

The Secure Bond Marriage Needs Today

My Last Pope (Probably): Part One of an Unusual and Very Catholic Travelogue

Unity has been the master theme of Pope Leo XIV’s first year

Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation

“As people of faith, we know a better world is possible,”: Groups plea for end of Sudanese crisis

“You are not alone,” Pope Leo XIV assures prisoners during visit to Batá prison

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