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“Mistakes were made”: Apocalypse of Truth in A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz chants a litany of misdirection that resonates powerfully in our “post-truth” age. Miller, who helped bomb Monte Casino [...]
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Pope Francis says seeing a psychiatrist helped him with anxiety when he was younger

Vatican City, Feb 27, 2021 / 08:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis has said that seeing a psychiatrist in Argentina helped him with anxiety when he [...]
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How should we think about Vatican II?

Editor’s note: The following essay was originally delivered on January 8, 2021, as the Convocation for Spring 2021 Semester at the University of Mary in [...]
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Fathers, Sons, and Sacrifices: On the Second Sunday of Lent

On the Readings for February 25, 2018, the Second Sunday of Lent […]
Books

New book highlights inspiring, challenging stories of six Black Catholics

Michael R. Heinlein is editor of Our Sunday Visitor’s Simply Catholic and author of several OSV booklets and pamphlets. He is also author of a [...]

pope john xxiii leads the opening session of the second vatican council in st. peter's basilica at the vatican oct. 11

How should we think about Vatican II?

Essay

Douglas Bushman February 26, 2021 39

Editor’s note: The following essay was originally delivered on January 8, 2021, as the Convocation for Spring 2021 Semester at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota. ——- Introduction There is an old story [...]

New book highlights inspiring, challenging stories of six Black Catholics

Books

Carl E. Olson February 25, 2021 6

Michael R. Heinlein is editor of Our Sunday Visitor’s Simply Catholic and author of several OSV booklets and pamphlets. He is also author of a forthcoming children’s book series on theology and a forthcoming biography [...]

Books

Finding the path to renewal in the Church: An interview with Brandon McGinley

Paul Senz February 24, 2021 13

Brandon McGinley has written a book, The Prodigal Church (Sophia Institute Press, 2020), which analyzes what has happened within and to the Catholic Church in recent decades, and how the Church can best respond to [...]

Essay

God’s Law of Love: A Spirituality of the Ten Commandments (Part 1)

Peter M.J. Stravinskas February 23, 2021 6

In an effort to assist CWR readers in their Lenten journey, we shall be offering weekly reflections on the oh-so-maligned but oh-so-necessary Ten Commandments (commandments, we should note at the outset, not suggestions!). Our point [...]

Columns

Modernity, medievalism, and the reckless spirit of Carnival

Dr. Christopher Shannon February 22, 2021 4

Modern urban life has detached most people in the developed world from a visceral experience of the rhythms of nature. Snowstorms such as much of the country has recently experienced represent one of the few [...]

Essay

The educational pilgrimage of St. John Paul II and its impact on the world

George Weigel February 22, 2021 5

Editor’s note: The Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based public policy research center, has just published a groundbreaking study, A Vision of Hope: Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts. The book explores the history and achievements of Catholic education [...]

Essay

“It’s the Mass that matters”

Fr. Charles Fox February 21, 2021 7

In early 20th-century England, a certain politician railed against English Catholics at a time when they were largely ostracized. His rallying-cry found a ready audience, not only with those sympathetic to the politician’s anti-Catholic position, [...]

Books

Newman’s classic work on relationship between the Church and the World

CWR Staff February 20, 2021 3

Edward Short is the author of Newman and his Contemporaries (2011), Newman and his Family (2013), and Newman and History (2017). His critical edition of Difficulties of Anglicans has just been published by Gracewing. He [...]

Modernity, medievalism, and the reckless spirit of Carnival

Dr. Christopher Shannon February 22, 2021 4

Modern urban life has detached most people in the developed world from a visceral experience of the rhythms of nature. Snowstorms such as much of the country has recently experienced represent one of the few [...]
What kind of tyranny?

James Kalb February 3, 2021 8
Carl’s Cuts: Bishops, Biden, Boorstein, and bold music choices

Carl E. Olson January 21, 2021 35

Who are we, really, as Americans?

Carl E. Olson January 6, 2021 123

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), made the following remark as part of a longer statement about the violence in the United States Capitol: “I [...]
The deeply flawed opportunism of Pope Francis

Carl E. Olson October 21, 2020 108
Riots, Technocrats, and Normality

Carl E. Olson May 30, 2020 44

“Mistakes were made”: Apocalypse of Truth in A Canticle for Leibowitz

Pope Francis says seeing a psychiatrist helped him with anxiety when he was younger

How should we think about Vatican II?

Fathers, Sons, and Sacrifices: On the Second Sunday of Lent

New book highlights inspiring, challenging stories of six Black Catholics

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How should we think about Vatican II?

New book highlights inspiring, challenging stories of six Black Catholics

Finding the path to renewal in the Church: An interview with Brandon McGinley

God’s Law of Love: A Spirituality of the Ten Commandments (Part 1)

Modernity, medievalism, and the reckless spirit of Carnival

The educational pilgrimage of St. John Paul II and its impact on the world

“It’s the Mass that matters”

Newman’s classic work on relationship between the Church and the World

Columns

Modernity, medievalism, and the reckless spirit of Carnival

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Who are we, really, as Americans?

Finding the path to renewal in the Church: An interview with Brandon McGinley

Newman’s classic work on relationship between the Church and the World

“All my books come from some kind of love”

New book highlights inspiring, challenging stories of six Black Catholics

Finding the path to renewal in the Church: An interview with Brandon McGinley

Newman’s classic work on relationship between the Church and the World

How should we think about Vatican II?

God’s Law of Love: A Spirituality of the Ten Commandments (Part 1)

The educational pilgrimage of St. John Paul II and its impact on the world

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