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AI, the Technocratic Paradigm, and Integral Human Fulfillment

March 29, 2025 Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. 5

At the end of January, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, together with the Dicastery for Culture and Education, released a document entitled Antiqua et nova: A Note on the Relationship Between Artificial […]

Analysis

Facts about the danger of Abortion Pill regimen: Planned Parenthood “agrees”

March 28, 2025 Susan Ciancio 28

As its use to kill preborn babies has skyrocketed, the dispensing of the abortion pill has become a hot-button topic over the last few years. Recent statistics state that it accounted for “63% of all abortions in […]

Analysis

The Rule of Law and the Francis Pontificate

March 25, 2025 JD Flynn, JCL, Ed Condon, JCD 34

The rule of law is never subject to the slightest exception, even in times of crisis. The reason is that the rule of law is at the service of the human person and aims to […]

Analysis

The Doctrinal Implications of Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight

March 19, 2025 E. Christian Brugger, Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ 35

Editor’s note: March 19th marks the ninth anniversary of Amoris laetitia (it was released on April 8, 2016), Pope Francis’s post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the pastoral care of families. Since that time, CWR has published […]

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Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the United States: A Look at the Numbers

February 17, 2025 J. J. Ziegler 30

2,980 men are preparing for priestly ordination as diocesan seminarians in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, according to data published in the most recent (2024) edition of The Official Catholic Directory. Diocesan chancery offices […]

Analysis

The Global Birth Dearth: A Primer

February 12, 2025 Sister Renée Mirkes 45

Rewind. It’s 1970, and Walter Conkrite sounds this demographic siren on CBS Nightly News: “The stakes in this battle are far greater than any other we have ever fought. . . . The experts we interviewed […]

Analysis

Vice President Vance, the Good Samaritan, and the “order of love”

February 10, 2025 Fr. Peter Totleben, O.P. 43

It’s not often that Catholic theology breaks into the news cycle, but this is just what happened when Vice President J. D. Vance gave an interview to FOX News defending the Trump administration’s actions regarding […]

Analysis

On the strange and politicized Jubilee for the World of Communications

February 3, 2025 MIchael R. Heinlein 18

The Jubilee for the World of Communications took place Jan. 24-26 at the Vatican. It was the first such global gathering planned for the 2025 Jubilee Year, and parts of it were quite lovely. A […]

Analysis

Political Dimensions of Moral Deliberation: The Immigration Case

January 31, 2025 Paul Seaton 37

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Wise cautionary words for those entering today’s contested political and commentarial scene from a Catholic point of view. However, I find that contemporary Catholic Social Thought in […]

Analysis

Cardinal Fernandez discusses Fr. Rupnik: What did we learn?

January 25, 2025 Christopher R. Altieri 31

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is working—slowly—toward a full penal trial for the disgraced former celebrity artist-priest, Fr. Marko Rupnik (olim Fr. Marko Rupnik SJ), an accused abuser of dozens of victims, most of them […]

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