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About Carl E. Olson
Carl E. Olson is editor of Catholic World Report and Ignatius Insight. He is the author of Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?, Will Catholics Be "Left Behind"?, co-editor/contributor to Called To Be the Children of God, co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax (Ignatius), and author of the "Catholicism" and "Priest Prophet King" Study Guides for Bishop Robert Barron/Word on Fire. His recent books on Lent and Advent—Praying the Our Father in Lent (2021) and Prepare the Way of the Lord (2021)—are published by Catholic Truth Society. The Most Asked Questions about Faith, Reason, Jesus, and the Bible, co-authored with Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., will be published by Ignatius Press in Fall 2026. He is also a contributor to "Our Sunday Visitor" newspaper, "The Catholic Answer" magazine, "The Imaginative Conservative", "The Catholic Herald", "National Catholic Register", "Chronicles", and other publications. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @carleolson.
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Abp. Vigano’s new testimony has “special appeal” to Card. Ouellet, more criticism of Pope Francis

September 27, 2018 Carl E. Olson 7

While many eyes, at least in the U.S., were focused on the conflicts and testimony playing out before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Church’s tumultuous summer continued as Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issued a new, […]

The Dispatch

Archbishop Naumann says “current crisis” is result of “failures of the accountability of bishops”

September 4, 2018 Carl E. Olson 19

“First and foremost,” says the Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas in a pastoral letter published August 31st, “we must pray for healing and comfort […]

Features

Archbishop Viganò responds to criticisms of handling of 2014 Nienstedt investigation (Updated)

August 27, 2018 Carl E. Olson 55

The former nuncio to the U.S. flatly denies assertions that he ordered a stop to an investigation of then-Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul and […]

Capital Punishment and the Catechism: A Symposium

Capital Punishment and the Catechism: A CWR Symposium

August 18, 2018 Carl E. Olson 6

Six Catholic scholars and commentators reflect on the Holy Father’s recent and controversial revision to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. […]

The Dispatch

You are Who you eat: “Let Christ be eaten…”

August 18, 2018 Carl E. Olson 4

On the Readings for August 19, 2018 […]

Features

“We have nothing to fear from the truth”: 25 years of covering clergy sex abuse

August 6, 2018 Carl E. Olson 43

Veteran Catholic journalist Philip F. Lawler speaks with CWR editor Carl E. Olson about covering clerical abuse from the early 1990s to today. […]

Editorial

Without truth there is no trust, and without trust…

July 23, 2018 Carl E. Olson 70

This is not a time for silence, mediocrity, or fear for the laity or the bishops. The rot and corruption must be outed; the truth […]

The Dispatch

Answering the divine call to participate in the mercy of God

July 14, 2018 Carl E. Olson 1

On the Readings for Sunday, June 15, 2018 […]

Features

Pascal’s Wager, certitude and doubt, and the human condition

July 13, 2018 Carl E. Olson 5

“The wager,” says Thomas S. Hibbs, author of a new book on Pascal’s philosophy and faith, “demands a kind of self-transformation of one’s passions, a […]

Features

How Jesus became Jesus: A conversation with Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy

June 25, 2018 Carl E. Olson 17

“When he was conceived and born these saving acts were still in the future,” says the noted theologian and author of a new study of […]

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