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The “Old Mass and the “Novus Ordo” Mass: Irreconcilable differences?

“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” (Col. 3:21) The relationship between the preconciliar and postconciliar forms of Mass has become like [...]
Columns

Independence Day and Catholic social principles

July is the first full month of summer, a time for lazy hazy days of going on vacation, cooling off, doing nothing. For historians, it [...]
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The enduring roots of the Declaration’s proclamation of equality

The American Founding is increasingly reviled by those with next to no knowledge of its true character. Herewith is a Fourth of July reflection, largely [...]
Analysis

A day of vindication for parents and religious freedom

June 21, 2022, will go down in American educational history as a banner-day for parental rights in education and for the full flowering of the [...]
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Here are 11 American saints to remember on July Fourth

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Americans celebrate their country’s independence on July 4th — as well as the people who formed the United States into the country that it is today. Tho… […]

Independence Day and Catholic social principles

Columns

Dr. Christopher Shannon July 3, 2022 3

July is the first full month of summer, a time for lazy hazy days of going on vacation, cooling off, doing nothing. For historians, it is the month when things really start to heat up, [...]

A day of vindication for parents and religious freedom

Analysis

Peter M.J. Stravinskas July 2, 2022 8

June 21, 2022, will go down in American educational history as a banner-day for parental rights in education and for the full flowering of the free exercise of religion. On that date, the Supreme Court [...]

Columns

When reason becomes madness

James Kalb July 1, 2022 34

Why have people become so crazy when there is so much information and so many experts? To answer, we need to know the basic understandings people rely on. These are evidently leading them astray. So [...]

Features

Pierre Toussaint: Hairdresser, philanthropist, and former slave

Father Seán Connolly June 30, 2022 4

While we believe in the holiness of the Church in her divine constitution, she remains as St. Augustine said, a “corpus permixtum,” a mixed body of saints and sinners. Professing Catholics bolstered by the graces [...]

Features

Pelosi’s reception of Holy Communion upstages the Holy Father’s liturgical reflections

Christopher R. Altieri June 29, 2022 131

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sure knows how to get herself in the papers, but she may have stepped in it this time. She showed up for Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on [...]

Features

The new Victims of Communism Museum documents the false hopes of communism

Dawn Beutner June 28, 2022 6

There are many sights to see in Washington, D.C. You can view the only Leonardo da Vinci painting on public view in the Americas at the National Gallery of Art. You can walk among giant [...]

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Further thoughts on restorationists—and a remark on papal sycophants

Larry Chapp June 27, 2022 76

My recent CWR column on Pope Francis’s comments about the worrisome rise of what he called “the restorers” in the American Church appears to have kicked up some dust and not a little misunderstanding. Many [...]

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On breaking a dominant lie

Most Reverend James Conley June 26, 2022 18

We all know the nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/ all the king’s horses and all the king’s men/ couldn’t put Humpty together again. It’s a kindergarten [...]

Independence Day and Catholic social principles

Dr. Christopher Shannon July 3, 2022 3

July is the first full month of summer, a time for lazy hazy days of going on vacation, cooling off, doing nothing. For historians, it is the month when things really start to heat up, [...]
When reason becomes madness

James Kalb July 1, 2022 34
The false binary between progressive accommodators and “rad trad” restorationists

Larry Chapp June 21, 2022 89

Abortion and Adoption: Some Personal Reflections

Carl E. Olson May 19, 2022 25

“I would rather get an abortion than have a Brown child who ends up being adopted by white evangelicals.” So wrote Jo Luehmann, a “Colombian born and raised pastor” whose writing focuses on “decolonizing church, [...]
The peddling of “dialogue” and the denial of doctrine

Carl E. Olson April 30, 2022 82
On 25 years a Catholic

Carl E. Olson April 7, 2022 22

The “Old Mass and the “Novus Ordo” Mass: Irreconcilable differences?

Independence Day and Catholic social principles

The enduring roots of the Declaration’s proclamation of equality

A day of vindication for parents and religious freedom

Here are 11 American saints to remember on July Fourth

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Independence Day and Catholic social principles

A day of vindication for parents and religious freedom

When reason becomes madness

Pierre Toussaint: Hairdresser, philanthropist, and former slave

Pelosi’s reception of Holy Communion upstages the Holy Father’s liturgical reflections

The new Victims of Communism Museum documents the false hopes of communism

Further thoughts on restorationists—and a remark on papal sycophants

On breaking a dominant lie

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Independence Day and Catholic social principles

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Abortion and Adoption: Some Personal Reflections

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