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Catholics mobilize aid after historic flash floods devastate Texas Hill Country

Trees emerge from flood waters along the Guadalupe River on July 4, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas with multiple fatalities reported. / Credit: Eric Vryn/Getty Images

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Proclaiming the Kingdom in the splendor of the Son

Readings: • Is 66:10-14c • Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 • Gal 6:14-18 • Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 Anyone who has seen a sunrise from [...]
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Pier Giorgio Frassati: Friendship as a path to holiness

While Catholic youth ministers and young adult group leaders all over the world think he’s a rock star, most Catholics have never heard of him. [...]
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10 things you should know about Catholics and the American Founding

In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in general. The [...]
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An Englishman in post-revolutionary America: A Fourth of July reflection

As Americans celebrate their independence from England, it is worth remembering an Englishman, later to be lionized by G. K. Chesterton, who moved to the [...]

10 things you should know about Catholics and the American Founding

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Bradley J. Birzer July 4, 2025 30

In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in general. The final three of those “10 things” mentioned Catholics and Catholicism, [...]

The Gospel, politics, and love of God

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James Kalb July 3, 2025 1

Like nature and grace, law and love have a complex and subtle relationship. Many Catholics insistently favor bridges over walls, inspiration over tradition, the spirit over the letter, and love over laws and institutions. They [...]

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Mozambique insurgents decried as ‘devils’ preying on children

Ngala Killian Chimtom July 1, 2025 0

Johan Viljoen, Director of the Denis Hurley Peace Institute of the South African Bishops’ Conference, has issued a stark condemnation of the armed groups operating in Mozambique, labeling them as “devils.” In comments to CWR, [...]

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The changing fortunes of Catholic “Founding Father” in American history

Kevin Schmiesing July 1, 2025 22

As Catholic Americans prepare to mark Independence Day, we naturally look not only to the well-known “founding fathers” such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington but also to our Catholic forbears who were [...]

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Catholic progressives and the development of sexual doctrine

Matthew Becklo June 30, 2025 32

In 2023, the newly minted cardinal Robert Prevost was asked by CNS about comments he made a decade earlier on “beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel,” including abortion and the “homosexual lifestyle.” Had his views [...]

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The Sacred Heart of Jesus is the burning furnace of divine love

Larry Chapp June 27, 2025 8

June is the month the Church sets aside for the celebration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This has always been one of my favorite devotions and I love all the traditional trappings that adorn [...]

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Synodality is the result of a theological error: Küng vs. Ratzinger 2.0

Monsignor Martin Grichting June 26, 2025 58

(Chur, Switzerland. kath.net) Hans Küng would have enjoyed the 2021-2024 Vatican Synod. Because he was the one who tried sixty years earlier to equate the concepts of Synod (or Council) and Church. That was supposed to [...]

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Preventive war and the U.S. attack on Iran

Dr. Edward Feser June 25, 2025 42

Last week I argued that the U.S. should stay out of Israel’s war with Iran. America has now entered the war by bombing three facilities associated with Iran’s nuclear program. Is this action morally justifiable in light [...]

The Gospel, politics, and love of God

James Kalb July 3, 2025 1

Like nature and grace, law and love have a complex and subtle relationship. Many Catholics insistently favor bridges over walls, inspiration over tradition, the spirit over the letter, and love over laws and institutions. They [...]
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is the burning furnace of divine love

Larry Chapp June 27, 2025 8
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James Kalb June 16, 2025 7

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 128

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 28
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Catholics mobilize aid after historic flash floods devastate Texas Hill Country

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10 things you should know about Catholics and the American Founding

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