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Entering Heaven on Earth is a beautiful education in both art and the Faith

The famed St. John Cantius parish in Chicago is the founding site of the Catholic Art Institute—a non-profit that aims to promote “the essential need [...]
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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. [...]
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Protests over kidnapping and killing of priests, farmers, and others in Nigeria

Christians in Nigeria’s Auchi diocese have engaged in mass protests against the kidnapping and killing of priests, farmers, and market women in Edo state. The [...]
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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 [...]
Books

Alfred Nicol’s new collection demonstrates his prodigious metrical gifts

Coming two decades after winning the Richard Wilbur Award, Alfred Nicol’s latest collection, After the Carnival, proves that its author has only continued to develop his [...]

Alfred Nicol’s new collection demonstrates his prodigious metrical gifts

Books

Shawn Phillip Cooper, PhD March 26, 2025 1

Coming two decades after winning the Richard Wilbur Award, Alfred Nicol’s latest collection, After the Carnival, proves that its author has only continued to develop his prodigious metrical gifts. In this, his fourth collection, he offers [...]

The Rule of Law and the Francis Pontificate

Analysis

JD Flynn, JCL, Ed Condon, JCD March 25, 2025 21

The rule of law is never subject to the slightest exception, even in times of crisis. The reason is that the rule of law is at the service of the human person and aims to [...]

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Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church

Larry Chapp March 24, 2025 82

In a relatively unknown interview with Fr. Jacque Servais, SJ, the late Pope Benedict XVI was asked about the apparent change in the Church’s doctrine concerning the salvation of the unbaptized. Fr. Servais begins by pointing [...]

Essay

Evangelium Vitae after Thirty Years

Richard A. Spinello March 24, 2025 10

March 25, 2025, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, marks the 30th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II’s great encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life). This prophetic work, one of several encyclicals that focus [...]

Features

The situation in Syria “is worse now than under ISIS”

Antonio Graceffo March 21, 2025 9

“A knife must be put to their throats… This is their medicine.” These chilling words echoed through a mosque in Idlib, a province in northwestern Syria, were spoken by a jihadist cleric inciting his followers [...]

Features

Pondering the progressive Catholic media meltdown

Matthew R. Petrusek, Ph.D. March 20, 2025 84

TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome, has become a popular way of explaining why progressives, who presumably want to gain and retain power, exhibit inexplicable behavior like disproportionately temperamental, negative, knee-jerk responses to actions and policies [...]

Books

New book recounts Jesuit formation, missionary work during The Sixties

Paul Senz March 20, 2025 10

The history of the Church is replete with spiritual autobiographies, many of them written by saints, and many more written by priests, religious, and laity who have not been raised to the altars. Many Catholics [...]

Features

God, beer, and evangelization by the pint: The story of Tridentine Brewing

Julian Kwasniewski March 19, 2025 6

Father and sons team Jeff, Trevor, and Cameron Alcorn have been brewing beer in their basement for fun for over a decade. But in late 2024 year, three of their brews appeared on grocery store [...]

Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church

Larry Chapp March 24, 2025 82

In a relatively unknown interview with Fr. Jacque Servais, SJ, the late Pope Benedict XVI was asked about the apparent change in the Church’s doctrine concerning the salvation of the unbaptized. Fr. Servais begins by pointing [...]
The story of two Irish American city boys and an urban Catholic parish

Dr. Christopher Shannon March 16, 2025 5
Yet another comment on ordo amoris

James Kalb March 1, 2025 32

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 122

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 [...]
Reflections on a dozen years as editor of Catholic World Report

Carl E. Olson November 2, 2024 26
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 60

Entering Heaven on Earth is a beautiful education in both art and the Faith

Facts about the danger of Abortion Pill regimen: Planned Parenthood “agrees”

Protests over kidnapping and killing of priests, farmers, and others in Nigeria

Can JD Vance deliver a commencement address at a Catholic university?

Alfred Nicol’s new collection demonstrates his prodigious metrical gifts

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Alfred Nicol’s new collection demonstrates his prodigious metrical gifts

The Rule of Law and the Francis Pontificate

Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church

Evangelium Vitae after Thirty Years

The situation in Syria “is worse now than under ISIS”

Pondering the progressive Catholic media meltdown

New book recounts Jesuit formation, missionary work during The Sixties

God, beer, and evangelization by the pint: The story of Tridentine Brewing

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Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church

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Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

New book recounts Jesuit formation, missionary work during The Sixties

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Alfred Nicol’s new collection demonstrates his prodigious metrical gifts

New book recounts Jesuit formation, missionary work during The Sixties

Digging deep beneath the surface of motherhood

Evangelium Vitae after Thirty Years

The Doctrinal Implications of Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight

St. Joseph and the vocation of consecrated laymen

The situation in Syria “is worse now than under ISIS”

God, beer, and evangelization by the pint: The story of Tridentine Brewing

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