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Picking up the Golden Thread of Western Civilization

What would the collapse of civilization look like? We might immediately think of cutoff utilities, disruptions in the supply chain, violence in the streets, and [...]
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Making sense of the Leonine pontificate: An interview with Christopher R. Altieri

“To understand the depth of the issues and why Leo might be the perfect man for the job,” said Ken Craycraft in his CWR review of Christopher [...]
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‘A great man who loved Jesus’: Catholic writer Russell Shaw dies at 90

Russell Shaw. Credit: Ignatius Press

Jan 6, 2026 / 14:10 pm (CNA).
Russell Shaw, a Catholic writer and journalist whose prolific career spanned decades including years of work for the U.S. bishops, died Jan. 6 at the age of 90.Catholic writer M… […]
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Semiquincentennial prep with HBO

Having recently lamented in this space that book reading is on life support in these United States, I find myself in the awkward position of [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Charlotte priests submit dubia to Vatican over liturgical changes by Michelle la Rosa (The Pillar): “The pastoral letter of December 17 [has] caused a great [...]

Making sense of the Leonine pontificate: An interview with Christopher R. Altieri

Books

Carl E. Olson January 7, 2026 0

“To understand the depth of the issues and why Leo might be the perfect man for the job,” said Ken Craycraft in his CWR review of Christopher R. Altieri’s new book, Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic [...]

Addressing the cold lie about the “warmth of collectivism”

Essay

Marcus Peter January 6, 2026 32

Bishop Robert Barron tweeted in response to Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address last week, accomplishing something increasingly rare in public discourse, since he cut through rhetorical fog and exposed a philosophical fault line that modern politics [...]

Books

Bigger on the inside than the outside

David Paul Deavel January 5, 2026 5

Christmas is the season of pondering the paradox of the Incarnation itself. What was found in the stable at Bethlehem was far greater than everything outside. This is no mere poetic exaggeration. The infinite God [...]

Essay

My Christmas-tide Adventure with Mother Wilhelmina

Monica Seeley January 5, 2026 5

I was quiet as my book club discussed a book of Christmas stories. As I listened, my mind roved over the busy year reaching its close. Then I remembered last December and knew I had [...]

Essay

A Cathedral Fit for Three Kings

Father Seán Connolly January 4, 2026 5

In all my travels, I have beheld few if any more impressive sights than the breathtaking Gothic behemoth of Kölner Dom, “Cologne Cathedral,” illumined at night, bathed in golden-white light, with its twin towers rising above [...]

Features

Civil society in the U.S. is a dead man walking

Kenneth Craycraft January 2, 2026 34

At the beginning of episode seven of the second season of the TV series “Breaking Bad,” a mariachi band sings a Mexican corrido, or narrative ballad, about the show’s antihero protagonist Walter White. In the song, [...]

Essay

Chesterton, Retirement, and Abnegation

David Fagerberg, Ph.D. January 1, 2026 9

I do not intend in these remarks to look at Chesterton in his retirement, for the simple fact that he never seems to have retired. He finished writing his autobiography a few weeks before his [...]

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The New Saints and Blesseds of 2025

J. J. Ziegler December 31, 2025 3

A 2005 curial document notes that “canonization is the supreme glorification by the Church of a Servant of God raised to the honors of the altar with a decree declared definitive and preceptive for the whole Church, [...]

The “True” Islam

James V. Schall, S.J. December 14, 2025 52

I. Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will [...]
Equality and the American Founding: A Catholic perspective

Dr. Christopher Shannon December 11, 2025 33
Vatican II at 60

Larry Chapp December 8, 2025 106

The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 151

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...]
The Future of Synodality

Carl E. Olson September 7, 2025 54
Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 130

Picking up the Golden Thread of Western Civilization

Making sense of the Leonine pontificate: An interview with Christopher R. Altieri

‘A great man who loved Jesus’: Catholic writer Russell Shaw dies at 90

Semiquincentennial prep with HBO

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Making sense of the Leonine pontificate: An interview with Christopher R. Altieri