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Martin Luther

Essay

Martin Luther’s flawed understanding of natural law: A response to Dr. Korey D. Maas

April 4, 2018 Timothy J. Gordon 10

Voluntarism denies the Catholic teaching that logos constitutes—rather than delimits—God’s nature, and Luther was a volunarist. […]

Essay

The Francis Reformation

February 28, 2018 Dr. Douglas Farrow 43

We will not get far by asking whether the Church is to be a Church of the poor and a Church of the merciful. Of […]

Features

Cardinal Brandmüller reflects on Luther, “Amoris laetitia”, the Dubia, and current situation

January 1, 2018 CWR Staff 12

An interview with the Church historian and theologian Walter Cardinal Brandmüller conducted by Armin Schwibach of kath.net. […]

Features

Natural law outside Catholicism? Regime-agnosticism and agnostic regimes

December 17, 2017 Timothy J. Gordon 11

The question at hand is: what do we make of America’s schizophrenic natural law pedigree, rejecting but needing Catholic ideas? (And John Locke, history’s most […]

The Dispatch

Ecumenism and the Eucharist

November 9, 2017 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 15

Attempts to achieve Christian unity are noble things, for those outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church who are baptized properly are indeed Christians. […]

The Dispatch

Wiker’s study of the Reformation an enlightening, balanced reflection on past and present

October 31, 2017 Piers Shepherd 5

Brimming with fascinating facts, The Reformation 500 Years Later: 12 Things You Need to Know is an excellent short history of the Reformation, the ideas that […]

History

The Reformation reformed

October 30, 2017 Sandra Miesel 7

The chronology of the Reformation no longer opens with Luther’s 95 Theses. The seeds of revolt were planted long before 1517. […]

Features

Martin Luther: Father of modern liberty or political absolutism?

October 29, 2017 Robert R. Reilly 25

The German father of Protestantism did not seem to consider that his metaphysical undermining of the Church’s authority and the abandonment of natural law would […]

History

Women and the Protestant Reformation

October 28, 2017 Amy Welborn 8

Luther and the Reformers went to war against the evangelical counsels as ideals and as the core of a vowed, religious life. Every woman—it was […]

Features

Cardinal Koch: “The commemoration of the Reformation reminded us of what unites us”

October 27, 2017 CWR Staff 6

“In the commemoration of the Reformation,” says the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, “the emphasis was above all on what we […]

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“The family is the foundation of co-existence and a guarantee against social fragmentation,” Pope Francis said today in an address to participants in the “Humanum” colloquium in Rome. The international, interfaith gathering, which will spend […]

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