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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, April 22, 2026

A Brief History of Catholic Higher Education (From the Academy): “Whatever they are doing and wherever they are headed now, all modern Western universities trace [...]
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Pope Leo XIV arrives in Catholic-majority Equatorial Guinea — Day 9 of his visit to Africa

Check here or below for live updates of Pope Leo XIV’s journey to Africa from April 13–23. Former psychiatric patient writes Pope Leo XIV a [...]
Essay

Justice Scalia’s Faith

On Antonin Scalia’s first day of Catholic education, an expatriate of the New York City public-school system arriving as a freshman at Xavier High School [...]
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Opinion: Democrats Pretend to Be on “Team Pope”

Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared in slightly different form on AMAC’s “Newsline” and is reposted here with kind permission Just as liberal elites are currently attempting [...]
Features

St. Anselm: Sounding the charge for religious freedom

With the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Congress prohibited “the federal government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion unless it demonstrates that [...]

Justice Scalia’s Faith

Essay

James Rosen April 21, 2026 0

On Antonin Scalia’s first day of Catholic education, an expatriate of the New York City public-school system arriving as a freshman at Xavier High School in Manhattan in September 1949, he beheld a most unusual [...]

St. Anselm: Sounding the charge for religious freedom

Features

Sean Fitzpatrick April 20, 2026 5

With the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Congress prohibited “the federal government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion unless it demonstrates that doing so both furthers a compelling governmental interest and represents [...]

Essay

The Resurrection, the Eucharist, and the Emmaus story

Peter M.J. Stravinskas April 19, 2026 4

In the midst of the Easter season, we re-read the twenty-fourth chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, the Emmaus story, my favorite passage in the New Testament. On Easter night, two lonely, frustrated disciples of Jesus [...]

Features

Pope Leo listens to harrowing tales of Cameroon’s war victims

Ngala Killian Chimtom April 18, 2026 3

The warmth of the Pope’s reception in Bamenda, which is the epicenter of Cameroon’s separatist violence, was palpable, even while the underlying trauma of the region was impossible to ignore. Archbishop Andrew Nkea welcomed the [...]

Books

The Secure Bond Marriage Needs Today

Jennifer S. Bryson April 17, 2026 16

In 1949, Ida Friederike Görres wrote, “That which is unnatural … people say, is indissolubility.” She disagreed. By 1971, when she sent her final book, What Binds Marriage Forever (CUA Press, 2026), to the publisher, she saw [...]

Essay

A Realist Outline of History, Part Two

Joseph K. Woodard April 16, 2026 7

Editor’s note: Part One of this essay can be read here. The First Apocalypse: The Blessings of Anarchy In the fifth century, the Western Church suffered its First Apocalypse, losing its demographic race to revive [...]

Essay

An Open Letter to Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ

George Weigel April 15, 2026 48

Your Eminence: In an article recently published by a major German Catholic website, you suggested that the question of whether the Church can ordain women has not been definitively settled: “I cannot imagine how a [...]

Essay

Is the war in Iran just?

J. Budziszewski April 14, 2026 87

It has been said that the first casualty of war is truth. I wonder whether we should say instead that the first casualty of war is clear reasoning, even on the part of intelligent and [...]

In gratitude for the Ordinariate

Larry Chapp April 8, 2026 55

Recently, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document on the importance of the Anglican Ordinariates. The text has a long and rather awkward title: “Characteristics of the Anglican Heritage as Lived [...]
How much emphasis on politics? And to what end?

James Kalb April 7, 2026 42
Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. March 22, 2026 5

The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 131

Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s [...]
The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 151
The Future of Synodality

Carl E. Olson September 7, 2025 56

Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Pope Leo XIV arrives in Catholic-majority Equatorial Guinea — Day 9 of his visit to Africa

Justice Scalia’s Faith

Opinion: Democrats Pretend to Be on “Team Pope”

St. Anselm: Sounding the charge for religious freedom

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