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Crusading 101
How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages, by Oxford professor Christopher Tyerman, demolishes the legend that Western crusaders were mere irrational […]
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A Papacy of Contradictions
Veteran journalist Phil Lawler asks hard questions in Lost Shepherd about where Pope Francis is—or isn’t—leading the Catholic Church. […]
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Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” is a call to clarity in an age of chaos
Why the University of Toronto professor’s bestselling 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is the most thought-provoking self-help book I have read in […]
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“The Best Books I Read in 2017”
Over forty CWR editors and contributors share their favorite reads from the last year. […]
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“The Dictator Pope” is sometimes frustrating, but filled with valuable insights and information
The most valuable service provided by the author of The Dictator Pope is the psychological portrait of Pope Francis: manipulative, hypersensitive, and often downright vindictive—certainly […]
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The Monk and the Immaculate One: “You will never say enough about Mary”
A visit with Dom Xavier Perrin, the abbot of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight and author of a new book on the Immaculate Conception. […]
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Was Hitler a Christian, an atheist, or neither?
A new book takes a look at the controversial—and complicated—issue of the religious views of Adolf Hitler. […]
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Raheem Kassam’s “No Go Zones” is unsettling, necessary reading
This book is informative and also digressive, which is perhaps its weakness and its strength. For even though it ambles and strays, it does so […]
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Forever Young?
Senator Ben Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult calls for parents to wake up, “get a spine”, and reestablish an ordered path to a healthy adulthood. But can […]
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A lucid, insightful tour through the principles of ecumenism
Peter Kreeft’s Catholics and Protestants: What Can We Learn from Each Other? emphasizes that Christ’s “Church will become wholly whole when it becomes wholly holy.” […]