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Jihadism, food crisis are undermining “reception of the gospel” in Nigeria

A leading Nigerian Catholic researcher and criminologist says insecurity, chronic over-borrowing, climate change, inflation, and corruption have pushed millions of people into hunger. And that, [...]
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Cathedrals and us

The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent Neo-Gothic structure, based on 14th-century English models, that calls [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Anti-American Bias – “In a letter ostensibly written to support the bishops of the US, Pope Francis has actually made life considerably more difficult for [...]
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Female Anglican minister ‘concelebrates’ Mass for the installation of Catholic archbishop, takes Communion

Anglican minister Vivian Schwanke De Oliveira in the entrance procession of the Mass for the installation of the archbishop of Chapecó in Brazil. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdiocese of Chapecó/Screenshot

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb 18, 2025 / 16:… […]
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The familial school of sanctity and mercy

Today is the anniversary of the death of Karol Wojtyla. Not of Pope John Paul the Great but of his father, Karol Wojtyla, senior. I [...]

The dangers of arbitrary government at home and in Rome

Features

Christopher R. Altieri February 18, 2025 22

“Arbitrariness creates fear and mistrust,” the senior prelate said. “It undermines mutual trust,” he said. “Nothing can be relied on anymore,” he said. The senior prelate was Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, emeritus of Vienna and a [...]

Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the United States: A Look at the Numbers

Analysis

J. J. Ziegler February 17, 2025 9

2,980 men are preparing for priestly ordination as diocesan seminarians in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, according to data published in the most recent (2024) edition of The Official Catholic Directory. Diocesan chancery offices [...]

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Persevering in faithfulness to Christ’s Church during ecclesial uncertainty

Paul Senz February 16, 2025 7

The Church, throughout her long history, has faced many terrible trials, united her in a deep and real way with the sufferings of Jesus. How can we be the saints the Church needs today, during [...]

Essay

Septuagesimatide: Slow and steady progress is the Catholic way

David Paul Deavel February 15, 2025 5

Human beings are often awed by dramatic and immediate transformations. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing: the seemingly miraculous turns in someone else often reveal to us possibilities for ourselves that we thought impossible. But, [...]

Columns

Tending God’s Garden: Adam’s Vocation and Ours

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. February 14, 2025 11

Over the past few months, much of my time and energy has been devoted to a side project exploring God’s two books through the lens of Pope Benedict’s dialogue with atheism. Now, however, I’d like [...]

Books

Henri de Lubac: Pilgrim of Hope, Witness to Jesus Christ

Fr. Robert B. Imbelli February 13, 2025 4

I first read Henri de Lubac, SJ, as a college student in the late 1950s, when Vatican II was still but a twinkle in Angelo Roncalli’s eye. Among my first discoveries were The Drama of Atheist [...]

Analysis

The Global Birth Dearth: A Primer

Sister Renée Mirkes February 12, 2025 45

Rewind. It’s 1970, and Walter Conkrite sounds this demographic siren on CBS Nightly News: “The stakes in this battle are far greater than any other we have ever fought. . . . The experts we interviewed [...]

Analysis

Vice President Vance, the Good Samaritan, and the “order of love”

Fr. Peter Totleben, O.P. February 10, 2025 38

It’s not often that Catholic theology breaks into the news cycle, but this is just what happened when Vice President J. D. Vance gave an interview to FOX News defending the Trump administration’s actions regarding [...]

Tending God’s Garden: Adam’s Vocation and Ours

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. February 14, 2025 11

Over the past few months, much of my time and energy has been devoted to a side project exploring God’s two books through the lens of Pope Benedict’s dialogue with atheism. Now, however, I’d like [...]
The time is full of opportunities to live and share the Faith

James Kalb February 9, 2025 6
Reading St. Thomas: A beginner’s guide to the articulus

Joseph G. Trabbic January 28, 2025 17

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 120

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 25
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 58

Jihadism, food crisis are undermining “reception of the gospel” in Nigeria

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Female Anglican minister ‘concelebrates’ Mass for the installation of Catholic archbishop, takes Communion

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