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Special Report A survey of dioceses rich in seminarians and dioceses poor in them. by Jeff Ziegler | December 2007 According to the Vatican's statistical yearbook, there were 63,882 major seminarians worldwide when John Paul II began his pontificate in 1978; by the end of 2005, that number had grown to 114,439—an increase of 79.1 percent. During the same time period, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, the number of American diocesan and religious seminarians in college and theological seminaries decreased from 9,021 to 4,603—a decline of 49.0 percent.
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Interview Author Amy Welborn discusses Pope Benedict, the condition of Catholic education, the tedium of blogging, and Summorum Pontificum. Interview by Jeremy Lott | December 2007  Amy Welborn is a popular Catholic author, editor, and blogger. She has written more than a dozen books, including the Prove It! series for teens, Here. Now.: A Catholic Guide to the Good Life, and the Study Guide for the Apostles. She has been published in periodicals from First Things to the New York Times. Welborn's newest study guide is a supplement to talks delivered by Pope Benedict XVI and collected by both Ignatius Press (Jesus, the Apostles and the Early Church) and Our Sunday Visitor (The Apostles). She spoke to CWR in August.
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Editorial What the U.S. bishops can learn from the scandal by George Neumayr | October 12, 2007 San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, speaking to KCBS radio in February, claimed ignorance of U.S Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's position on abortion. "I don't believe that I am in a position to say what I understand her stand to be," he said. Pelosi's 100 percent pro-abortion voting record had somehow eluded him.
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Editorial It marks a new era of liturgical seriousness.
by George Neumayr | Aug-Sep 2007 The forces in the Church most responsible for dividing Catholics from magisterial teaching are the quickest to use the word “divisive” in any controversy. A “divisive moment” is the Catholic left's euphemism for any papal action that seeks to unite Catholics to the actual teachings and traditions of the faith.
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InterviewFrancis Beckwith discusses the reasons for his reversion and reactions to it.Interview by Tim Drake | July 2007 Francis Beckwith, associate professor of Church-State Studies at Baylor University and former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, rocked the evangelical world in May with his announcement that after 32 years as an Evangelical, he was returning to the Catholic faith of his youth. In part, because of the ensuing reaction to his reversion, he resigned as president of ETS on May 5, 2007. He serves as associate director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies and as associate editor of the Journal of Church & State. He spoke with CWR from his home in Waco, Texas about his return to Catholicism.
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