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She reported on a “prairie fire from hell”: Author Donna Steichen dies at 97

The year was 1985. A nun in a zip-up velour robe was demonstrating liturgical dance at my all-girls high school. Spotlighted onstage in the darkened [...]
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Celestial lights and daylight saving time

“Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, to separate day from night. Let them mark the seasons, the days and the years, [...]
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Pro-life group protests Cardinal Cupich’s award to philanthropist, Planned Parenthood donor

Cardinal Blase Cupich said the award is not an endorsement of every stance a person has, but Illinois Right to Life accused him of “scandalizing the faithful” at the Oct. 29 banquet. […]
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Opinion: The Twelve Bishops and Trump—Controversy and Context

On October 22, twelve American successors to the Apostles cleared up a conundrum that has baffled theologians for centuries: What is the unpardonable sin against [...]
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Ohio courts invalidate parental educational choice program

The latest front in the battle to protect the God-given parental right to direct the educational upbringing of their children, because “the child is not [...]

She reported on a “prairie fire from hell”: Author Donna Steichen dies at 97

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Monica Seeley October 29, 2026 0

The year was 1985. A nun in a zip-up velour robe was demonstrating liturgical dance at my all-girls high school. Spotlighted onstage in the darkened auditorium, she swayed and bowed, long grey hair falling to [...]

The Gospel, not “listening,” is the message

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George Weigel October 28, 2026 19

Toward the end of the recent Roman meeting to discuss the Church’s 21st-century mission to marriage and the family, Pope Leo XIV asked the participating bishops to share their reflections on that experience. Bishop Erik [...]

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Opinion: When praying for a President becomes a scandal

Marcus Peter October 27, 2026 59

We have reached such an extraordinary degree of political derangement within Catholic discourse in the U.S. that twelve bishops praying over the President of the United States now constitutes a scandal requiring public apologies and [...]

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Why seminaries need to teach political philosophy and study of statesmanship

Paul Seaton October 26, 2026 10

I taught in fine seminary programs at the beginning and end of my full-time teaching career, with stints at Catholic colleges and universities in between. I continue to teach part-time for the college seminary of [...]

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On Christ the King and the idolatry of politics

Peter M.J. Stravinskas October 25, 2026 8

Editor’s note: This homily was preached on the feast of Christ the King (Extraordinary Form), October 25, 2026, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. In the calendar of the Usus Antiquior, [...]

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Amoris Laetitia in 2026 and the deeper crisis of faith today

Larry Chapp October 22, 2026 44

The anticipated meeting in Rome to revisit and possibly reassess Amoris Laetitia is now over. And whatever Pope Leo wishes to do with its deliberations will now be on hold as he recovers from surgery, [...]

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On the private life and public testimony of Elisabeth Elliot

Joseph F. Martin October 21, 2026 4

I first encountered Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) through her husband. I was a new student at a college in South Carolina when a friend pressed a copy of Shadow of the Almighty (1958) into my hands [...]

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From the Archives: Realism and Islam

James V. Schall, S.J. October 19, 2026 16

Editor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. Schall was posted first at CWR on April 17, 2016. I. Political realism, long associated with Augustine, constrains us to consider what Machiavelli later recommended to us—namely, [...]

Amoris Laetitia in 2026 and the deeper crisis of faith today

Larry Chapp October 22, 2026 44

The anticipated meeting in Rome to revisit and possibly reassess Amoris Laetitia is now over. And whatever Pope Leo wishes to do with its deliberations will now be on hold as he recovers from surgery, [...]
From the Archives: Realism and Islam

James V. Schall, S.J. October 19, 2026 16
How to turn the corner? Reflections on the way forward

James Kalb October 18, 2026 12

Reading Saint Paul in a Time of Synodality

Carl E. Olson August 6, 2026 22

“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...]
Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 180
The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 132

She reported on a “prairie fire from hell”: Author Donna Steichen dies at 97

Celestial lights and daylight saving time

Pro-life group protests Cardinal Cupich’s award to philanthropist, Planned Parenthood donor

Opinion: The Twelve Bishops and Trump—Controversy and Context

Ohio courts invalidate parental educational choice program

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She reported on a “prairie fire from hell”: Author Donna Steichen dies at 97

The Gospel, not “listening,” is the message

Opinion: When praying for a President becomes a scandal

Why seminaries need to teach political philosophy and study of statesmanship

On Christ the King and the idolatry of politics

Amoris Laetitia in 2026 and the deeper crisis of faith today

On the private life and public testimony of Elisabeth Elliot

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New book addresses conflicts over abortion, gender treatments, conscience

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She reported on a “prairie fire from hell”: Author Donna Steichen dies at 97

The Gospel, not “listening,” is the message

Opinion: When praying for a President becomes a scandal

She reported on a “prairie fire from hell”: Author Donna Steichen dies at 97

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