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Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph has been apologizing a lot over the last few weeks for the way the diocese handled complaints about a priest who was eventually arrested on child-pornography charges. That […]

Sister Elizabeth Johnson has sent a long letter to the USCCB’s Committee on Doctrine, disputing its claims that her book Quest for the Living God misrepresents Catholic teaching. She in effect says the Committee’s critique rests on […]

For a culture in which 70% of men aged 17-34 admit to viewing pornographic websites monthly and in which “sexting over forty” is an increasingly common feature of romantic relationships, are Anthony Weiner and his […]

Over at the UK’s Catholic Herald, William Oddie has a moving reflection on how, as a result of Anglicanorum Coetibus, the beauty of traditional Anglican spirituality is returning to the Church in which it had […]

“The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei has clarified that girls are not allowed to serve at the Extraordinary Form of the Mass,” according to the UK’s Catholic Herald. “It made clear that the Instruction on Summorum […]

On the CWR homepage this week, you’ll find Dr. Anthony E. Clark’s report on the condition of Catholics in China today, which appears in our June issue. Dr. Clark is an associate professor of Chinese […]

What is trumpeted by sources in this story as good news sounds like bad news: that religious orders are happy with their relatively new Vatican overseer, Brazilian Archbishop Joao Braz de Avis.  The orders, many of which are deeply troubled, seem to […]

Over the weekend, Pope Benedict XVI made his 19th international trip of his pontificate, visiting Croatia for that country’s first National Day for Catholic Families. In a conversation with journalists on the plane to Croatia […]

“An Episcopal church in Bladensburg has decided to become the first in the country to convert to Roman Catholicism under new Vatican rules, the Episcopal Diocese of Washington announced Monday.”  So says the Washington Post.  […]