Columns
Is the family still fundamental?
Last month, I suggested that subsidiarity comes from the idea that social order begins with the family, and proceeds from there to ever broader communities [...]
Is the family still fundamental?
Columns
Last month, I suggested that subsidiarity comes from the idea that social order begins with the family, and proceeds from there to ever broader communities and ultimately to the whole world. This view makes the [...]
Concerns about Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight: A Reply to Pedro Gabriel
Essay
Since the publication of Amoris Laetitia nine years ago, faithful Catholics from all quarters of the Church have expressed concern about the confusion that has followed in the wake of the Exhortation’s eighth chapter (AL8). We share [...]
Essay
The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005. [...]
Columns
On offices as hell, Severance, and white-collar work
A little more than two years ago, I wrote my first regular column here at Catholic World Report, and it was about work. I was reflecting on a trip I took to England as part [...]
Essay
What it Means to be a Body: A Philosophical Primer
Gender-altering surgeries. Abortion on demand. “Swingers Break”, offering spring breakers “a personal paradise where you can explore and enjoy all your hedonistic desires” (yes, all one’s hedonistic desires). Pope John Paul II warned us that by abandoning [...]
Analysis
AI, the Technocratic Paradigm, and Integral Human Fulfillment
At the end of January, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, together with the Dicastery for Culture and Education, released a document entitled Antiqua et nova: A Note on the Relationship Between Artificial [...]
Analysis
Facts about the danger of Abortion Pill regimen: Planned Parenthood “agrees”
As its use to kill preborn babies has skyrocketed, the dispensing of the abortion pill has become a hot-button topic over the last few years. Recent statistics state that it accounted for “63% of all abortions in [...]
Features
Can JD Vance deliver a commencement address at a Catholic university?
Vice President JD Vance is currently the rock star of the conservative Catholic world. His youth, style, upbringing, conversion, young family, and proximity to President Donald Trump have collided to make him the runaway favorite [...]
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The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...] -
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Chris in Maryland:
The Mind of McCarrick remains in his fellow cultists of the spiritual abyss, including Cardinal McElroy, and Cardinal Cupich, and…
Outis:
It's not much, but at least I'm glad it's not Mainz. I worked in Mainz in 1997 and 1998, before…
Crusader:
"just as he used the equally bogus and self-promoting claim that he was some sort of secret Vatican diplomatic agent…
