Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is proving quite controversial, in part because it admits of so many different interpretations. Is it a nefarious piece of woke propaganda? A parable about PTSD? Or an “apologia for Christian morality,” as […]

July 30th is the feast day of Blessed Solanus Casey, a Capuchin friar who died in 1957 and who has a strong chance of becoming the first man in the United States to be declared […]

Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally at CWR on December 26, 2023.  In a recent BBC interview, Anthony Fauci reflects on his own “complicated” relationship with the Catholic Church. Fauci and the reporter are […]

A 2025 YouGov poll revealed some interesting factoids about Americans’ reading habits—or lack thereof. 40% of us didn’t read a book last year. About a quarter of the country read one to four books in […]

5 years after Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions, traditionalist Catholics reflect on ‘Traditionis Custodes’ (America): “Five years after its release, a papal document on the preconciliar form of the Mass, commonly called the “traditional Latin […]

In a pivotal scene in Robert Bolt’s play, A Man for All Seasons, St. Thomas More is confronted by his son-in-law, William Roper, with news that Parliament is about to pass the Act of Succession, […]

Many know St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, the Carmelite martyr to Nazism, at least by her name in the world, Edith Stein. However, she was by no means the only Carmelite victim of National […]