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Florida’s Catholic Attorney General, Bishops Face Off Over Vaccines

Florida is a “school choice” state, allowing parents to pay for private school tuition with state-funded education savings accounts. But Catholic school children in the [...]
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Fiction can often convey the human texture of a time and place better than scholarly works of history. Herewith, and in honor of the national [...]
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How to be a Dhimmi (The Catholic Thing): “We live in a moment when Europe’s elites have repudiated the continent’s Christian past, while revising history [...]
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Opinion: Why it is significant HHS decertified an organ procurement organization

In October 2021, Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover II suffered cardiac arrest after a drug overdose and was transported to Baptist Health Richmond, a hospital in [...]
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Where priestly vocations begin: The lasting impact of Steubenville Youth Conferences

A new CARA survey found that 18% of priests ordained in 2026 attended a Franciscan University of Steubenville Youth Conference, highlighting the conferences’ growing impact on priestly vocations. […]

Florida’s Catholic Attorney General, Bishops Face Off Over Vaccines

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Monica Seeley August 19, 2026 3

Florida is a “school choice” state, allowing parents to pay for private school tuition with state-funded education savings accounts. But Catholic school children in the state are not given a choice enjoyed by their public [...]

Islamist persecution, Christian survival, and encountering the Houthis in Yemen

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David Pinault August 17, 2026 21

I was idling in my room at the Arabia Felix, drinking Orange Fanta and eyeing geckos on the wall, when a message came from the lobby. I’d been granted the meeting I was hoping for [...]

Analysis

Clarifying primacy for Catholic-Orthodox dialogue

Ines Angeli Murzaku August 16, 2026 25

Last month, on July 13 to 15, I attended the 30th annual Orientale Lumen Conference at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C. The conference’s theme was urgent: “Ecumenism at a Crossroad: [...]

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

Ngala Killian Chimtom August 15, 2026 5

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. [...]

Essay

The Forgotten Virtue of Patriotism

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley August 14, 2026 53

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 [...]

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

James Kalb August 12, 2026 37

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 75

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

James Kalb August 12, 2026 37

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

Florida’s Catholic Attorney General, Bishops Face Off Over Vaccines

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