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Chesterton, the Incarnation, and discovering the truth about the Eucharist

Readings: • Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a • Psa 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 • 1 Cor 10:16-17 • Jn 6:51-58 The English author G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was [...]
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“We have lived a lie for 65 years”: Bishop Bushu on Cameroon’s deep divisions

As the bishops of Cameroon renew calls for peace during their 51st Plenary Assembly, a retired bishop from the country’s conflict-afflicted Southwest Region has issued [...]
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Top Canadian newspaper says media failed to verify Kamloops mass graves claim

The Globe and Mail said the “starting point for the media” in 2021 should have been searching for evidence and admitted to a “failure of journalism.” […]
Analysis

The Global Future of the Catholic Church

In recent months, there have been several articles in both Catholic and secular press noting an uptick in interest in the Catholic Church among young [...]
The Dispatch

Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be the patron saint…of what?

During a recent speech to the General Assembly of Pontifical Mission Societies, Pope Leo XIV gave what may be the clearest indication yet of what [...]

“We have lived a lie for 65 years”: Bishop Bushu on Cameroon’s deep divisions

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Ngala Killian Chimtom June 5, 2026 0

As the bishops of Cameroon renew calls for peace during their 51st Plenary Assembly, a retired bishop from the country’s conflict-afflicted Southwest Region has issued a stinging critique aimed at the way the country’s English-speaking [...]

The Global Future of the Catholic Church

Analysis

Jayd Henricks June 5, 2026 14

In recent months, there have been several articles in both Catholic and secular press noting an uptick in interest in the Catholic Church among young adults in the United States. While encouraging, some of the [...]

Books

“My missionary life was an adventure of the heart”: An interview with Fr. Barry Martinson, S.J.

Paul Senz June 3, 2026 0

The work of a missionary is often trying, but the missionaries themselves are usually the first to tell you what a tremendous blessing it is. Father Barry Martinson, S.J., is one such missionary. He has [...]

Columns

Catholic morality and social concerns

James Kalb June 2, 2026 40

Pope Leo recently said, in response to a question about the effect of Cardinal Marx’s promotion of blessings for same-sex couples on church unity, The unity or division of the Church should not revolve around [...]

Features

Dawn Amidst the Darkness: Dispatch from New York City

Fr. Eric J. Banecker June 1, 2026 7

I found myself with a free morning in New York City and decided to do some reconnaissance work at Saint Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village. St. Joseph’s has recently been highlighted as a lodestar of [...]

Analysis

The Eastern Lung of Pope Leo’s first encyclical

Ines Angeli Murzaku May 31, 2026 2

As widely commentated, the most obvious continuity framework for Magnifica Humanitas is Rerum Novarum (1891). The Holy See presented Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical as a document on “safeguarding the human person in the time of Artificial Intelligence,” signed on May 15, [...]

Analysis

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

Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. May 30, 2026 10

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 [...]

Essay

Rediscovering Joan of Arc

Dawn Beutner May 29, 2026 33

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, [...]

Catholic morality and social concerns

James Kalb June 2, 2026 40

Pope Leo recently said, in response to a question about the effect of Cardinal Marx’s promotion of blessings for same-sex couples on church unity, The unity or division of the Church should not revolve around [...]
Why I think Magnifica Humanitas is a pointed and prophetic gut punch

Larry Chapp May 27, 2026 55
Magnifica Humanitas: The Human Person Between Glory and Fragility

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

Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 173

“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

Chesterton, the Incarnation, and discovering the truth about the Eucharist

“We have lived a lie for 65 years”: Bishop Bushu on Cameroon’s deep divisions

Top Canadian newspaper says media failed to verify Kamloops mass graves claim

The Global Future of the Catholic Church

Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be the patron saint…of what?

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