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The “New Mass” of 1964: Conclusion: “This multi-part study seeks to explore how the laity experienced and reacted to the very first post-conciliar liturgical changes.” [...]
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Opinion: Speaking the truth about the Pope and politics

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, [...]
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Former political prisoner shares what life is like in Iran

The expert estimates that a majority of the country’s population opposes the current regime. He says 10-15% support the government, while another 30% are “politically neutral.” […]
Essay

Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation

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 [...]
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The transmission theory of authority

Scholastic thinkers like Cardinal Cajetan, St. Robert Bellarmine, and Francisco Suárez developed what is sometimes called a “transmission theory” of governmental authority. It holds that [...]

Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation

Essay

Thomas P. Harmon May 4, 2026 5

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 [...]

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

Features

Ngala Killian Chimtom May 3, 2026 14

(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 40

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 16

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 [...]

Essay

Sex and the Unity of the Catholic Church

Monica Migliorino Miller April 29, 2026 32

Faced with a German Church that may be, at this point, a schismatic ecclesial body, Pope Leo XIV made remarks on April 22nd that stirred controversy and debate. On April 20th, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of [...]

Chapp's Schtick

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

Larry Chapp April 28, 2026 145

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 [...]

Analysis

On Colorado’s continuing assault on religious liberty

Kenneth Craycraft April 27, 2026 14

If it’s a day that ends in “y,” the State of Colorado has probably passed another law hostile to free speech and religious liberty. And the state’s persistent animus toward Christianity has been keeping the [...]

Books

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

Casey Chalk April 26, 2026 10

When it comes to saints who were also soldiers, the list is relatively short. There is St. Louis IX, the medieval king of France, who fundraised and led two crusades against the Muslim kingdom in [...]

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

Larry Chapp April 28, 2026 145

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 151

“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

Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Opinion: Speaking the truth about the Pope and politics

Former political prisoner shares what life is like in Iran

Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation

The transmission theory of authority

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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?

Sex and the Unity of the Catholic Church

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

On Colorado’s continuing assault on religious liberty

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

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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

Catholic Education Needs Civic Formation

Sex and the Unity of the Catholic Church

Seeing Woman through the Eyes of Gertrud von le Fort

“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

Pope Leo listens to harrowing tales of Cameroon’s war victims

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