His Excellency Joseph F. Naumann, D.D. was ordained the archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas on January 15, 2005. On that day, he said, “I ask for your prayers that I might be a good and […]
With 125,000 registered overseas pilgrims and around half a million present at the final Mass celebrated by the Holy Father, World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney was an occasion to rival Sydney’s Olympic Games in […]
In the cool darkness of an Australian July winter’s night, under a clear sky marked with stars of the Southern Cross, Pope Benedict looked upon the 235,000 candle-bearing young persons gathered with him at the […]
In late August, Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The show’s host asked her a question about the beginning of human life. Describing herself as an […]
Secularism’s hold on Europe remains strong, but it appears that Pope Benedict XVI is loosening its grip here and there. His September visit to France offered a glimpse of this: enormous crowds greeted him in […]
After it was announced in late June that St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke had been appointed to a new position in Rome as the head of the Vatican’s Supreme Court, John Allen of the National […]
It is with some trepidation that I review Russell Shaw’s new book, Nothing to Hide. Shaw has been a stalwart defender of the truths of the Catholic faith, and as a journalist and communications director […]
In his influential study of modern moral discourse, After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre identifies taboos as unintelligible fragments of moral discourse from bygone periods that originally were parts of a coherent moral vision. Who would have […]
“When the Devil fell, he couldn’t come back up again. That’s why the Devil hates you!” the pastor booms into his microphone as he paces frenetically before his congregation, whipping them into exaltation. “But when […]
As discussed in the July issue of CWR, the Church worldwide has enjoyed growth in the number of seminarians since 1978. According to data published in L’Osservatore Romano and the Vatican’s statistical yearbook, there were […]
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