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
  • [ May 16, 2025 ] HHS investigates hospital for violating conscience rights of ultrasound technicians News Briefs
  • [ May 16, 2025 ] Catholic groups voice opposition to proposed SNAP, Medicaid cuts in budget bill News Briefs
  • [ May 16, 2025 ] Pope Leo XIV to diplomats: Peace and justice can be achieved by investing in the family News Briefs
  • [ May 16, 2025 ] Berlin pharmacist ordered to give up practice after refusing to sell ‘morning-after’ pill News Briefs
  • [ May 16, 2025 ] Hospital keeps brain-dead woman alive to save unborn baby, citing Georgia law 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

  • Cardinal Parolin doesn’t rule out Pope Leo XIV going to Nicaea

    Catholic News Agency May 16, 2025 2
  • “Christ is living within me”: On the life, suffering, and death of St Gemma Galgani

    Donald Jacob Uitvlugt May 16, 2025 4
  • Pope Leo XIV expected to live in traditional papal apartment unused by Pope Francis

    Catholic News Agency May 15, 2025 17
  • On the irony of theology-destroying, progressive Catholic theologians

    Anne Hendershott May 14, 2025 47

Follow CWR on Facebook

  • Cardinal Parolin doesn’t rule out Pope Leo XIV going to Nicaea
  • HHS investigates hospital for violating conscience rights of ultrasound technicians
  • Catholic groups voice opposition to proposed SNAP, Medicaid cuts in budget bill
  • Pope Leo XIV to diplomats: Peace and justice can be achieved by investing in the family
  • Berlin pharmacist ordered to give up practice after refusing to sell ‘morning-after’ pill
  • Hospital keeps brain-dead woman alive to save unborn baby, citing Georgia law
  • CNA explains: How the reconciliation bill might defund Planned Parenthood
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
  • Tony W: The Vatican under the previous pope support paid virtually no attention to the ongoing jihad against Christians in Nigeria. After…
  • Athanasius: Are the people getting SNAP benefits tax paying citizens or illegals? If they are here illegally, they have no right…
  • Mary E: Has Leo shown any sign of interest in living in Casa Santa Marta? He was filmed earlier this week walking…

Join Our Free Newsletter

Daily
Weekly


 
Search CWR
Follow Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email (Weekly Newsletter)
  • RSS
Recent Comments
  • Tony W on Jihadist violence has reshaped society and the Catholic Church in Nigeria
  • Athanasius on Catholic groups voice opposition to proposed SNAP, Medicaid cuts in budget bill
  • Mary E on Pope Leo XIV expected to live in traditional papal apartment unused by Pope Francis
  • AggieJ on The truth will set you free
  • AggieJ on The truth will set you free
Also on CWR
General

Persons or property? Celebrity embryo lawsuit escalates

Anne Hendershott December 5, 2016 0

While much of the media ridiculed businessman Nick Loeb when he filed a lawsuit last year to prevent his former fiancée, TV star Sofia Vergara, from destroying the frozen embryos they created together in 2013, […]

  • 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