Pope Leo XIV’s first magisterial document of his papacy, Dilexi Te (“I have loved you”), has understandably generated a lot of interest. An apostolic exhortation is a fairly low-level document in terms of the classical criteria for […]
As the internet erupted over Pope Leo’s blessing of a 20,000-year-old block of melting Greenland ice, I remained happily oblivious to the firestorm while delivering some lectures on creation in the Bay Area. After completing my […]
Leo XIII became pope in February 1878. Within 18 months of his election, he issued his encyclical Aeterni Patris, recommending St. Thomas Aquinas as bearing “golden wisdom” and promoting the renewal of Thomistic studies as […]
Recent trends in America point toward either tribalism or social disintegration. There is no neat solution to the problem. Still, the Church will be in a position to help mitigate it—not directly, through social engagement […]
I’ll cut right to the chase: Paul Kingsnorth is among the three or four best writers I have encountered in the last decade. And his latest book, Against the Machine, published late last month, is […]
Last week, my inbox was inundated with people writing about the recent concert in St. Peter’s Square. For those who missed it, the “Grace for the World” concert was held on September 13th, and it […]
“Satanic priest becomes canonized saint” sounds like a headline from a trashy tabloid, but on October 19, 2025, it will be true. Since his beatification in 1980, the story of Bartolo Longo’s life has both […]
Dr. Paul Seaton, who is a contributor to CWR, is an independent scholar whose areas of intellectual interest and specialization include political philosophy and French philosophical thought. He has translated and written extensively on modern […]
On September 30, Senator Dick Durbin announced that he is declining a “Lifetime Achievement Award” offered to him by the Archdiocese of Chicago. The heated controversy surrounding the episode illustrates two related crises in American […]
In his statement commenting on Senator Richard Durbin’s decision to decline a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich admonished U.S. Catholics to reflect on a homily that Pope John Paul […]
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