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The “Old Mass” and the “Novus Ordo” Mass: Irreconcilable differences?

January 18, 2026 Father Jerry J. Pokorsky 182

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 […]

Chapp's Schtick

Ratzinger v. Kasper: Why the debate matters even more today

January 17, 2026 Larry Chapp 29

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 […]

The Dispatch

The Ascension reveals man’s calling to eternal, divine life

May 29, 2025 Carl E. Olson 19

Readings: • Acts 1:1-11 • Psa. 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 • Eph. 1:17-23 or Heb. 9:24-28; 10:19-23 • Lk 24:46-53 “He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.” The […]

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The Three “R’s” of the Resurrection

April 20, 2025 Carl E. Olson 7

Readings: • Acts 10:34a, 37-43 • Psa. 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 • Col. 3:1-4 or I Cor. 5:6b-8 • Jn. 20:1-9 or Mt. 28:1-10 “Hidden first in a womb of flesh, he sanctified human birth by […]

Essay

St. John Paul II and Jérôme Lejeune: Two lives at the service of life

May 18, 2024 George Weigel 4

Note: The following remarks were made at the II International Bioethics Conference, in Rome, on May 18, 2024. Many of the participants in this conference are experts in the life and thought of a great […]

The Dispatch

One Christ, One Savior, One Shepherd

April 20, 2024 Carl E. Olson 10

On the Readings for April 22, 2018, the Fourth Sunday of Easter […]

The Dispatch

True worship and the cleansing of the Temple

March 3, 2024 Carl E. Olson 3

On the Readings for Sunday, March 4, 2018, the Third Sunday of Lent […]

Columns

The Paschal Mystery proclaimed in creation

January 6, 2024 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 6

My last column delved into the Church’s belief that each creature—even those we find irritating or inconsequential—mirrors the beauty of the divine Logos in our world. Yet, even as every feature of the cosmos reflects […]

Features

The need for clarity in a time of moral and doctrinal ambiguity

July 18, 2023 Father Jerry J. Pokorsky 49

“So faith, hope, love abide, these three,” Saint Paul reminds us, “but the greatest of these is love” (1 Cor. 13:13). The Sacrament of Penance is a Sacrament of mercy. In the service of love, […]

pope john xxiii leads the opening session of the second vatican council in st. peter's basilica at the vatican oct. 11
Essay

How should we think about Vatican II?

February 12, 2023 Douglas Bushman 155

Editor’s note: The following essay was originally delivered on January 8, 2021, as the Convocation for Spring 2021 Semester at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota. It was posted originally at CWR on […]

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