Books
“It is in the sacrament of the Eucharist where we profit from His Passion”
The Eucharist is at the heart of our lives as Catholics, a truth that the Church has long recognized and celebrated. But what does that [...]
“It is in the sacrament of the Eucharist where we profit from His Passion”
Books
The Eucharist is at the heart of our lives as Catholics, a truth that the Church has long recognized and celebrated. But what does that mean? What role does the Eucharist play in our lives? [...]
The Politics of Three Cardinals
Editorial
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 [...]
Essay
Islam, Iran, and the separation of church and state
Public debate surrounding the turmoil in Iran is increasing, and rightly so. Unfortunately, I have observed an increasing default to a tired conclusion, namely that religion itself represents a corrosive threat to political order and [...]
Essay
When words mean anything, they mean nothing(ness)
Over the course of a few days in mid-January, the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) heard oral argument in a major Title IX case, a U.S. Senate committee held a hearing about the danger of chemical abortions, and [...]
Features
The “Old Mass” and the “Novus Ordo” Mass: Irreconcilable differences?
Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally at CWR on July 3, 2022. “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” (Col. 3:21) The relationship between the preconciliar and postconciliar forms of Mass [...]
Analysis
Iran, the Quran, and the West
What is unfolding in Iran today is faithful to the Quran. The present regime represents the mature expression of political Islam as articulated through Quranic command, prophetic precedent, and juridical enforcement. The Iranian theocracy emerged [...]
Chapp's Schtick
Ratzinger v. Kasper: Why the debate matters even more today
December 31, 2025, marked the third anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI. Perhaps, therefore, now is as good a time as any to look back and reflect on his legacy. But why yet [...]
Essay
“Swinging for the fences”: Lessons from my younger brother on living and dying
December 12, 2021, was the day my younger brother’s scan revealed the hard news that the pain in his left hip—which he jokingly called “a giant tumor”—was indeed precisely that. For months, he had attributed [...]
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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 [...] -
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maria:
It doesn't take too much work to "demonize" armed, masked ICE agents leaping out of vans in front of schools…
Marlene:
Trump is a traitor to democracy. End of story
AFCz:
Great comments given the very different, to mutually exclusive world views between Traditional and modern Catholicism, the former conforming the…
