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Walk for Life West Coast and OneLife LA to hold events on January 24, 2026

January 13, 2026 Jim Graves 0

Two major pro-life walks organized by Catholics will return to California on Saturday, January 24. They are timed roughly in conjunction with the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which struck […]

Columns

Renewal and the Council: A lawyer’s perspective

January 12, 2026 James Kalb 20

The men who discussed and approved the documents of the Second Vatican Council also oversaw their implementation. The Church’s response to the Council was nonetheless very different from what they expected. Why did that happen? […]

Essay

The late great George Pell and his enemies, Part 2

January 11, 2026 Dawn Beutner 23

Editor’s note: You can read Part 1 of this column here. In 2014, the newly elected Pope Francis decided to improve the state of the Vatican’s finances. He appointed the Australian cardinal George Pell (1941-2023) […]

Features

At consistory, Cardinal Zen slams synodality as ‘ironclad manipulation’ and ‘insult’ to bishops

January 10, 2026 Catholic News Agency 38

Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun speaks at the Asianews Conference at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, Nov. 18, 2014. – Bohumil Petrik/CNA.

Jan 10, 2026 / 11:30 am (CNA).
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun delivered a forceful critique of syn… […]

Books

Recovering the truth about the body in a “liquid” age

January 10, 2026 Carl E. Olson 5

Angela Franks, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America and the President of the Academy of Catholic Theology for 2025–26. Her study and writing focus on identity, the body, the […]

Columns

Pierre Manent’s challenge to the West is sophisticated, unbound by mere nostalgia

January 8, 2026 Andrew Petiprin 4

In the middle of the seventeenth century, Blaise Pascal was not alone in worrying that his nation and continent were no longer Christian enough. Today, the idea of a Christian society is much farther removed […]

Books

Making sense of the Leonine pontificate: An interview with Christopher R. Altieri

January 7, 2026 Carl E. Olson 16

“To understand the depth of the issues and why Leo might be the perfect man for the job,” said Ken Craycraft in his CWR review of Christopher R. Altieri’s new book, Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic […]

Essay

Addressing the cold lie about the “warmth of collectivism”

January 6, 2026 Marcus Peter 58

Bishop Robert Barron tweeted in response to Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address last week, accomplishing something increasingly rare in public discourse, since he cut through rhetorical fog and exposed a philosophical fault line that modern politics […]

Books

Bigger on the inside than the outside

January 5, 2026 David Paul Deavel 5

Christmas is the season of pondering the paradox of the Incarnation itself. What was found in the stable at Bethlehem was far greater than everything outside. This is no mere poetic exaggeration. The infinite God […]

Essay

My Christmas-tide Adventure with Mother Wilhelmina

January 5, 2026 Monica Seeley 7

I was quiet as my book club discussed a book of Christmas stories. As I listened, my mind roved over the busy year reaching its close. Then I remembered last December and knew I had […]

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Among the recent positive developments of Catholicism in the Northern countries, Deacon Anders Hamberg was ordained a priest on Saturday, June 7th, as only the sixth Finnish-born Catholic priest since the Reformation. The ordination took […]

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