Features

A Tale of Two Bishops

September 23, 2025 Carl E. Olson 14

Editor’s note: This CWR editorial was posted originally on February 9, 2015, not long after Blase Cupich was named Archbishop of Chicago after some time spent as bishop of Spokane, WA. It is reposted here […]

The Dispatch

Parables, Puzzlement, and Prudence

September 20, 2025 Carl E. Olson 15

Readings: • Am 8:4-7 • Ps 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8 • 1 Tm 2:1-8 • Lk 16:1-13 How difficult is the parable of the dishonest steward heard in today’s Gospel reading? “Of all of Jesus’ parables,” […]

Editorial

The Future of Synodality

September 7, 2025 Carl E. Olson 53

There are no first, second or third-class Catholics, no.… Please, let us get used to listening to each other, to talking, not cutting our heads off for a word. To listen, to discuss in a […]

The Dispatch

Humility, Wisdom, and Moral Realism

August 30, 2025 Carl E. Olson 22

Readings: • Sir. 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 • Psa. 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 • Heb. 12:18-19, 22-24a • Lk. 14:1, 7-14 “Humility,” the Evangelical theologian James Houston once wrote, “is moral realism.” That simple definition stuck with […]