In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, how do we answer the violence that grips America’s public square? This latest social horror is part of a disturbing pattern of other assassinations, massacres, and […]
I looked up from my work to see a text from one of my son’s schoolmates: “Hi Mrs. Seeley, a couple of us have decided to go to the clinic and pray today just because […]
Western civilization, Islam, and secular elites formed the triangle that I began to develop in the first installment of this alarum. My thesis is that this precious thing, Western civilization, to which we all owe […]
The paradox at the heart of Christianity is the Cross. Through Christ’s sacrifice, this instrument of death has become the source of lasting life. Christ hung upon the Cross not just as a “living victim” […]
In 1937, Fr. Edward Betowski, a professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York, published Spurs to Conversion, a compilation of weekly reflections encouraging priests to cultivate a missionary spirit in themselves and in their parishioners. Lamenting […]
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a new feature category titled “From the Archives,” which will, as the name indicates, be pieces from CWR’s extensive archives. It seems fitting that this first essay, […]
Way back in olden times, when I was still a professor of theology, one of the most ubiquitous attitudes amongst the students was that it does not matter which religion one practiced since “all religions […]
“Revival” is not a common word in the Episcopalian lexicon, but the spiritual excitement that permeated All Angels’ Church under the Rev. Martyn Minns may fairly be called a revival. There were conflicts and failures, […]
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 […]
In this year of the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope St. John Paul II, it seems fitting to reflect anew on the missionary character of Christian faith. Against the backdrop of the crumbling […]
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