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Visiting El Santuario de Chimayó, the most popular pilgrimage site in America

April 7, 2023 Father Seán Connolly 17

I have always felt drawn to visit New Mexico ever since I read about its beautiful landscape and rich Catholic history in Willa Cather’s 1927 novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop. I finally made it […]

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Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is filled with bracing, demanding beauty

March 31, 2023 James Jeffrey 4

People usually rave about the Met. Many consider it, not without justification, to house the world’s greatest art collection. While Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is also considered one of the world’s best art museums, […]

Features

The goals and lies of the Polish Left’s smear campaign against John Paul II

March 27, 2023 Filip Mazurczak 5

“A half-truth is worse than a lie and a half.” This Yiddish proverb perfectly describes the dishonest claims that the future Pope St. John Paul II covered up sexual abuse as Archbishop of Krakow (1962-1978), […]

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Transgender ideology makes inroads in Archdiocese of Guadalajara

March 23, 2023 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 30

A male-to-female “transgender” drag queen performer in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico has received a new baptismal certificate affirming his female self-identity, with the approval of an official of the city’s Catholic archdiocese. The issuance […]

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The Church in Germany is on the path into total insignificance

February 6, 2023 Birgit Kelle 43

The Catholic Church in Germany is not only facing its last synodal assembly in March 2023, but also its biggest decision on direction in many decades. Reconciling the driving forces there with the clear admonitions […]

Features

Statement about Fr. Rupnik from the Diocese of Rome raises more questions

December 23, 2022 Christopher R. Altieri 42

The Diocese of Rome has issued its own statement regarding Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ, the world-famous Jesuit artist-priest accused of serial sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse of at least nine women over a period […]

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Conference to focus on controversial Pontifical Academy for Life book

December 6, 2022 Carl E. Olson 16

What is the doctrinal status of the Church’s teaching against contraception? How is Catholic teaching on contraception supported by Scripture, Christian anthropology, and the natural law? What is meant by the “radical paradigm change” mentioned […]

Features

Monastic decline and the loss that goes with it

December 3, 2022 James Jeffrey 20

A strange sense of beautiful abandonment accompanied me as I passed between the soundless cloisters of the Cistercian monastery Santa María la Real de Oseira in north-western Spain. One cloister was overrun with purple lavender flowers, […]

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Return to the spirit of the Acts of the Apostles

November 28, 2022 CWR Contributors 11

Editor’s note: The following address was translated by William J. Melcher for CWR, from the Italian original posted by L’Osservatore Romano, with reference to the German translation posted by kath.net. ————— In his Letter to […]

Features

Jordan Walker Ross reflects on playing Little James in “The Chosen”

November 9, 2022 Kathy Schiffer 1

In 1991, at the age of 29, Canadian-born actor Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease. Fox, whose roles included the iconic Alex P. Keaton in the NBC sitcom “Family Ties,” and Marty […]

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