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The Importance of a Sacramental Perspective – “The wonderful thing about the sacraments is their blessed objectivity: the fact that we have the assurance that [...]
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The Rule of Law and the Francis Pontificate

The rule of law is never subject to the slightest exception, even in times of crisis. The reason is that the rule of law is [...]
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Joseph Ratzinger: The Mystery of the Annunciation is the Mystery of Grace

From Dogma und Verkundigung, quoted in Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year (Ignatius Press, 1992): The mystery of the annunciation [...]
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Reading Flannery O’Connor for the first time

Reading Flannery O’Connor requires a stout heart and a strong stomach. In her short life, before she died of terminal lupus, she wrote two novels [...]
Chapp's Schtick

Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church

In a relatively unknown interview with Fr. Jacque Servais, SJ, the late Pope Benedict XVI was asked about the apparent change in the Church’s doctrine concerning [...]

The Rule of Law and the Francis Pontificate

Analysis

JD Flynn, JCL, Ed Condon, JCD March 25, 2025 11

The rule of law is never subject to the slightest exception, even in times of crisis. The reason is that the rule of law is at the service of the human person and aims to [...]

Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church

Chapp's Schtick

Larry Chapp March 24, 2025 46

In a relatively unknown interview with Fr. Jacque Servais, SJ, the late Pope Benedict XVI was asked about the apparent change in the Church’s doctrine concerning the salvation of the unbaptized. Fr. Servais begins by pointing [...]

Essay

Evangelium Vitae after Thirty Years

Richard A. Spinello March 24, 2025 8

March 25, 2025, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, marks the 30th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II’s great encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life). This prophetic work, one of several encyclicals that focus [...]

Features

The situation in Syria “is worse now than under ISIS”

Antonio Graceffo March 21, 2025 9

“A knife must be put to their throats… This is their medicine.” These chilling words echoed through a mosque in Idlib, a province in northwestern Syria, were spoken by a jihadist cleric inciting his followers [...]

Features

Pondering the progressive Catholic media meltdown

Matthew R. Petrusek, Ph.D. March 20, 2025 84

TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome, has become a popular way of explaining why progressives, who presumably want to gain and retain power, exhibit inexplicable behavior like disproportionately temperamental, negative, knee-jerk responses to actions and policies [...]

Books

New book recounts Jesuit formation, missionary work during The Sixties

Paul Senz March 20, 2025 10

The history of the Church is replete with spiritual autobiographies, many of them written by saints, and many more written by priests, religious, and laity who have not been raised to the altars. Many Catholics [...]

Features

God, beer, and evangelization by the pint: The story of Tridentine Brewing

Julian Kwasniewski March 19, 2025 6

Father and sons team Jeff, Trevor, and Cameron Alcorn have been brewing beer in their basement for fun for over a decade. But in late 2024 year, three of their brews appeared on grocery store [...]

Analysis

The Doctrinal Implications of Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight

E. Christian Brugger, Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ March 19, 2025 33

Editor’s note: March 19th marks the ninth anniversary of Amoris laetitia (it was released on April 8, 2016), Pope Francis’s post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the pastoral care of families. Since that time, CWR has published [...]

Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church

Larry Chapp March 24, 2025 46

In a relatively unknown interview with Fr. Jacque Servais, SJ, the late Pope Benedict XVI was asked about the apparent change in the Church’s doctrine concerning the salvation of the unbaptized. Fr. Servais begins by pointing [...]
The story of two Irish American city boys and an urban Catholic parish

Dr. Christopher Shannon March 16, 2025 5
Yet another comment on ordo amoris

James Kalb March 1, 2025 32

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 122

The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...]
Reflections on a dozen years as editor of Catholic World Report

Carl E. Olson November 2, 2024 26
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 60

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God, beer, and evangelization by the pint: The story of Tridentine Brewing

The Doctrinal Implications of Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight

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