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  • [ May 9, 2025 ] Americans in St. Peter’s Square celebrate historic election of Pope Leo XIV News Briefs
  • [ May 9, 2025 ] Villanova University: the pope’s alma mater  News Briefs
  • [ May 9, 2025 ] Indian, Pakistani cardinals seen leaving St. Peter’s Basilica together ahead of conclave News Briefs
  • [ May 9, 2025 ] In his own words: Pope Leo XIV on the Eucharistic congress, Pope Francis, and synodality  News Briefs
  • [ May 9, 2025 ] PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV meeting the last three pontiffs News Briefs

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Alfred Nicol’s new collection demonstrates his prodigious metrical gifts

March 26, 2025 Shawn Phillip Cooper, PhD 3

Coming two decades after winning the Richard Wilbur Award, Alfred Nicol’s latest collection, After the Carnival, proves that its author has only continued to develop his prodigious metrical gifts. In this, his fourth collection, he offers […]

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 […]

Chapp's Schtick

Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church

March 24, 2025 Larry Chapp 130

In a relatively unknown interview with Fr. Jacque Servais, SJ, the late Pope Benedict XVI was asked about the apparent change in the Church’s doctrine concerning the salvation of the unbaptized. Fr. Servais begins by pointing […]

Essay

Evangelium Vitae after Thirty Years

March 24, 2025 Richard A. Spinello 13

March 25, 2025, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, marks the 30th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II’s great encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life). This prophetic work, one of several encyclicals that focus […]

Features

The situation in Syria “is worse now than under ISIS”

March 21, 2025 Antonio Graceffo 14

“A knife must be put to their throats… This is their medicine.” These chilling words echoed through a mosque in Idlib, a province in northwestern Syria, were spoken by a jihadist cleric inciting his followers […]

Features

Pondering the progressive Catholic media meltdown

March 20, 2025 Matthew R. Petrusek, Ph.D. 91

TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome, has become a popular way of explaining why progressives, who presumably want to gain and retain power, exhibit inexplicable behavior like disproportionately temperamental, negative, knee-jerk responses to actions and policies […]

Books

New book recounts Jesuit formation, missionary work during The Sixties

March 20, 2025 Paul Senz 10

The history of the Church is replete with spiritual autobiographies, many of them written by saints, and many more written by priests, religious, and laity who have not been raised to the altars. Many Catholics […]

Features

God, beer, and evangelization by the pint: The story of Tridentine Brewing

March 19, 2025 Julian Kwasniewski 6

Father and sons team Jeff, Trevor, and Cameron Alcorn have been brewing beer in their basement for fun for over a decade. But in late 2024 year, three of their brews appeared on grocery store […]

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 […]

Essay

St. Joseph and the vocation of consecrated laymen

March 18, 2025 Jeremiah Barker 5

Why be a consecrated layman, and not a priest? I am, after all, ‘available’ for the priesthood. I’m not married. Why not go ‘all the way,’ and seek ordination? As a layman in the life […]

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