Essay
At the altar, yet far from the Lord
How can priests who are not only intimately united to the Eucharistic Lord but who also receive the graces of the Eucharist each day betray […]
Features
Features
How the bishops use and abuse “scandal”
It has become a synonym for “institution-harming controversy” or “bad public relations,” which are to be avoided at all costs. […]
Special Report
Detectives hope trail won’t go cold in priest’s murder probe
As it enters its third decade, the investigation into the murder of Fr. Alfred Kunz is taking on a new urgency, police say. […]
Analysis
Whither the Church on “sensitivity” to homosexuals?
To what degree does the campaign of American Jesuit Fr. James Martin become the agenda for parishes in the Catholic Church throughout the world? […]
Features
“Zeal for thy house”: A young priest’s reflections on scandal in the Church
The world showed me all the ways there are to fall, but when I discovered the Church, I found the one way there is to […]
Features
Bishop Morlino condemns “homosexual subculture” in the hierarchy
Most Rev. Robert C. Morlino urges “perfect hatred” for sin and a return to holiness; will preside at a public Mass of reparation for “sins […]
Capital Punishment and the Catechism: A Symposium
Capital Punishment and the Catechism: A CWR Symposium
Six Catholic scholars and commentators reflect on the Holy Father’s recent and controversial revision to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. […]
Books
The Passion of Father Jacques Hamel
A new biography shows how twenty-first century Europe’s first martyr brought holiness to the ordinary. […]
Analysis
The bishops’ “Apalachin moment” has arrived
Even an Apostolic Visitation of the Church in the US is destined to fail if its scope is limited to McCarrick, even if it illuminates […]
Special Report
“I don’t know if they will ever reveal why he was murdered”
Some friends believed Fr. Kunz’s work as an exorcist or his investigations of sexual corruption in the priesthood must have been factors in his 1998 […]