Catholic World Report
Catholic World Report

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email (Weekly Newsletter)
  • RSS
  • Home
  • Columns
    • Chapp’s Schtick
    • Ecclesia et Civitas
    • God’s First
    • God’s Two Books
    • The Past Present
  • Features
    • Analysis
    • Books
    • Editorial
    • Essay
    • Film & Music
    • History
    • Interview
    • News
    • Opinion
    • Special Report
  • The Dispatch
  • Topics
    • Pope Francis
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • Books
    • Canon Law
    • All Topics
  • About CWR
  • Advertise
  • Donate
News Briefs
  • [ June 14, 2025 ] Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Chicago could go for more than $1 million News Briefs
  • [ June 14, 2025 ] Annual report finds there are ‘not enough’ deacons being ordained in the U.S. News Briefs
  • [ June 14, 2025 ] Young people present to Pope Leo XIV their spiritual renewal project for Europe News Briefs
  • [ June 14, 2025 ] Virginia teen’s Catholic school journey inspires whole family’s conversion News Briefs
  • [ June 13, 2025 ] House launches probe of Catholic nongovernmental organizations’ role aiding migrants News Briefs

Dei Verbum

Features

“The ‘Synodal Way’ into the German Schism.” A critical examination

April 9, 2023 CWR Staff 57

Vatican (kath.net) With the last plenary assembly, the negotiations and democratic votes of the so-called “Synodal Way” have been concluded. The majority vote decisions are now to be implemented. However, the resolutions do not meet […]

The Dispatch

Memo to Gen Z Catholics: Why Vatican II is still important

February 15, 2023 George Weigel 66

Mr. Adam Lucas, who is “newly married with a baby on the way” (mazel tov!) and “has a Master’s in Theology,” speaks for a depressing number of Gen Z Catholics when he writes on the […]

Features

The German Crisis, the World Church, and Pope Francis

December 14, 2022 George Weigel 53

The Year of Our Lord 2023 will likely witness Catholic dramas we cannot predict now; that is the way of Providence. What we can know with certainty about next year is that the German crisis […]

Essay

Speech of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Prefect to the German bishops

December 5, 2022 CWR Staff 29

Editor’s note: The following is the full text of the speech given on Nov. 18, 2022, by His Eminence Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to […]

Chapp's Schtick

Paradox and mystery reclaimed: A review of Henri de Lubac’s The Church

July 31, 2022 Larry Chapp 18

A few months ago, I interviewed the patristics scholar, Dr. Lewis Ayres. Dr. Ayres is understandably very favorably disposed towards the school of modern theology that has come to be known as “ressourcement” theology. However, […]

Chapp's Schtick

Is Vatican II “spent”? A reply to Michael Pakaluk: Part I

March 30, 2022 Larry Chapp 62

Michael Pakaluk, in a recent essay at “The Catholic Thing”, makes the claim that Vatican II, though containing many important teachings, has done all that it can do and will do, and is therefore, “spent.” […]

The Dispatch

Five reasons to read Dei Verbum—and five things you’ll learn in doing so

April 25, 2021 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 13

Mention the Second Vatican Council, and you’ll find some younger Catholics glazing over. Many born in the seventies and eighties missed the euphoria of the Council and the revolution realized in its aftermath. Our earliest […]

The Dispatch

Reading Scripture during Lent: Scripture and Tradition

February 18, 2020 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 4

Editor’s note: This is the second essay in a three-part series on “Reading Scripture during Lent”. Part One was “A Catholic Understanding of the Bible”. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? That question […]

Books

A sorely needed theological justification of the truth of the Catholic faith

June 18, 2019 Eduardo Echeverria 11

Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s book The Power of Truth: The Challenges to Catholic Doctrine and Morals Today consists of several essays on a variety of teachings that are currently in the limelight of the Church’s crisis—doctrinal, […]

Features

How Jesus became Jesus: A conversation with Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy

June 25, 2018 Carl E. Olson 17

“When he was conceived and born these saving acts were still in the future,” says the noted theologian and author of a new study of […]

Posts navigation

1 2 »

The Dispatch: More from CWR

  • The Trinity: A Mystery for Eternity

    Carl E. Olson June 14, 2025 4
  • Carlo Acutis to be canonized Sept. 7 with Pier Giorgio Frassati

    Catholic News Agency June 13, 2025 0
  • Rediscovering the memorable Saint Anthony of Padua

    Dawn Beutner June 13, 2025 9
  • A journey through story and soul with Joseph Pearce

    Tim Mitchell June 12, 2025 3

Follow CWR on Facebook

  • A Man’s Place in the Home: A Biblical Perspective
  • The Trinity: A Mystery for Eternity
  • Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Chicago could go for more than $1 million
  • Annual report finds there are ‘not enough’ deacons being ordained in the U.S.
  • Young people present to Pope Leo XIV their spiritual renewal project for Europe
  • Virginia teen’s Catholic school journey inspires whole family’s conversion
  • House launches probe of Catholic nongovernmental organizations’ role aiding migrants
abortion Americas Asia - Pacific Catholic Church Catholic News COVID-19 Eucharist Europe Jesus Christ Middle East - Africa Pope Francis pro-life prolife prolife2023 prolife2024 religious freedom Ukraine Ukraine War US Vatican Vatican news
  • Amanda: 1. TLM Catholics in the US alone outnumber 21 of the Eastern Churches worldwide. A few of the smallest Churches…
  • Amanda: I am a TLM-er, and TC was sufficiently horrifying to me that I would not wish anything of the sort…
  • Amanda: I tend to get confused when people talk about breathing with both lungs. Yes, we need the Eastern Churches, their…

Join Our Free Newsletter

Daily
Weekly


 
Search CWR
Follow Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email (Weekly Newsletter)
  • RSS
Recent Comments
  • Amanda on Imagine Liturgical Peace
  • Amanda on Imagine Liturgical Peace
  • Amanda on Why we need the Eastern Churches, in Pope Leo XIV’s own words
  • meiron on Imagine Liturgical Peace
  • mrscracker on Imagine Liturgical Peace
Also on CWR
No Picture
General

“Another slap in the face”?

Catherine Harmon May 30, 2011 0

Sandro Magister’s latest column levies a rather heavy charge against Pope Benedict – that while the Holy Father writes and speaks at length and with great insight about the importance of truly beautiful, reverent liturgical […]

  • Home
  • About / Contact
  • Free Newsletter
  • Advertising
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy

© Catholic World Report

Our Spring Sale Has Started

You can see how this popup was set up in our step-by-step guide: https://wppopupmaker.com/guides/auto-opening-announcement-popups/

A FAITHFULLY CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE

Sign up to receive a weekly email with news, analysis, and commentary from a voice you can trust!

* indicates required


Daily
Weekly