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Military chaplain candidates denied financial aid due to their religious beliefs

Military chaplains have served honorably as indispensable members of the United States armed forces throughout American history. Military chaplains, whose role is significantly different from [...]
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Faith over fear: The Church’s response to the escalating Ebola crisis in Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is grappling with the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in its history. It’s already killed over 2,100 people out of more [...]
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The Mathematics of Morality

Pope John Paul II reaffirmed traditional Catholic moral teaching in his 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor. In particular, he rejected consequentialism and its close cousin, proportionalism, as [...]
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The Blessed Virgin Mary: Sinless by grace, saved by grace, assumed by grace

On the Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 2018 […]
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Choosing joy, forming good habits, and living the blessed life

“A saint who is sad is a sad example of a saint.” – St. Francis de Sales God has given us so many blessings, and He [...]

Faith over fear: The Church’s response to the escalating Ebola crisis in Congo

Features

Ngala Killian Chimtom August 15, 2026 1

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is grappling with the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in its history. It’s already killed over 2,100 people out of more than 4,500 cases, according to government figures released August 11. [...]

The Forgotten Virtue of Patriotism

Essay

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley August 14, 2026 9

As the United States commemorates the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of its founding, I have been reflecting on the virtue of patriotism. I want to share a few comments about why patriotism is one of [...]

Columns

Does Magnifica Humanitas help explain how social teaching should be understood today?

James Kalb August 12, 2026 26

At least for me, Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical does little to resolve doubts about how Catholic social teaching should be interpreted and understood. But I should explain my doubts. In its modern form, social [...]

Analysis

The WNBA is the Reductio ad Absurdum of Trans Ideology

Kenneth Craycraft August 11, 2026 70

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has perhaps done more to demonstrate the absurdity of transgender ideology than any American public institution. And it has done so through its endorsement of that very ideology. Over the [...]

Features

Nigerian bishop: Africa is not immune to what caused the decline of the Church in Europe

Ngala Killian Chimtom August 10, 2026 10

While churches across Western Europe continue to close their doors, repurpose their buildings, or grapple with widespread apathy, Nigeria is experiencing a Catholic awakening that defies global trends. With an estimated 35 million Catholics and [...]

Essay

On Abortion Pills, Wastewater, and Public Trust

John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. August 9, 2026 53

One scandal of the COVID era was the alliance between government and some social media platforms to suppress doubt and dissent about the regime—especially compulsory vaccinations—to control the pandemic. A casualty has been the erosion [...]

Essay

Anthony Fauci, his beloved client, and the bureaucratic regime

Joseph K. Woodard August 8, 2026 67

In the late 1980s, while I was finishing my PhD at Claremont Graduate School, President Ronald Reagan appointed my thesis advisor, Dr. William Barclay Allen, to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. A year [...]

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“I think we’re poised for an amazing time in the Church.” An interview with Bp. Gerard W. Battersby

Jim Graves August 7, 2026 19

Bishop Gerard W. Battersby, 66, has served as bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, since 2024. He grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He and his brother, Chris, are twins and were the youngest [...]

Does Magnifica Humanitas help explain how social teaching should be understood today?

James Kalb August 12, 2026 26

At least for me, Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical does little to resolve doubts about how Catholic social teaching should be interpreted and understood. But I should explain my doubts. In its modern form, social [...]
Jesus autem tacebat: Dignitatis Humanae and Social Kingship, Part Three

Larry Chapp July 31, 2026 32
Dignitatis Humanae and Social Kingship, Part Two

Larry Chapp July 17, 2026 25

Reading Saint Paul in a Time of Synodality

Carl E. Olson August 6, 2026 20

“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...]
Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 180
The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 131

Military chaplain candidates denied financial aid due to their religious beliefs

Faith over fear: The Church’s response to the escalating Ebola crisis in Congo

The Mathematics of Morality

The Blessed Virgin Mary: Sinless by grace, saved by grace, assumed by grace

Choosing joy, forming good habits, and living the blessed life

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