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Bishops urge Cameroonians to assert “right and duty” to engage in political life

As Cameroon prepares for a Presidential election later this year, Catholic Bishops in the Central African country are warning against apathy, stating that October’s presidential [...]
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Lenten lessons from Saint Peter

This week’s Lenten focus on conversion and the old Confiteor takes us to “the holy Apostles, Peter and Paul.” I always liked the description an [...]
Essay

Concerns about Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight: A Reply to Pedro Gabriel

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 [...]
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Report: Attacks on Catholics increasingly common and tolerated in Europe and Latin America

Polonia Castellanos, founder of the Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers. / Credit: Women World Platform, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Puebla, Mexico, Apr 2, 2025 / 17:46 pm (CNA).
Attacks against Christians, especially Catholics, ar… […]
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Pope St. John Paul II, Doctor of the Church?

The Catholic Church is prudently patient in awarding the title “Doctor of the Church” to her greatest teachers. However luminous someone’s explication of the truths [...]

Concerns about Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight: A Reply to Pedro Gabriel

Essay

Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ, E. Christian Brugger April 2, 2025 20

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 [...]

The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II

Essay

Carl E. Olson April 1, 2025 16

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

Andrew Petiprin March 31, 2025 20

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

Matthew Nelson March 31, 2025 5

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

Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. March 29, 2025 5

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”

Susan Ciancio March 28, 2025 27

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?

David G. Bonagura, Jr. March 27, 2025 95

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 [...]

Books

Alfred Nicol’s new collection demonstrates his prodigious metrical gifts

Shawn Phillip Cooper, PhD March 26, 2025 3

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 [...]

On offices as hell, Severance, and white-collar work

Andrew Petiprin March 31, 2025 20

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 [...]
Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church

Larry Chapp March 24, 2025 130
The story of two Irish American city boys and an urban Catholic parish

Dr. Christopher Shannon March 16, 2025 5

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 63

Bishops urge Cameroonians to assert “right and duty” to engage in political life

Lenten lessons from Saint Peter

Concerns about Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight: A Reply to Pedro Gabriel

Report: Attacks on Catholics increasingly common and tolerated in Europe and Latin America

Pope St. John Paul II, Doctor of the Church?

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Concerns about Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight: A Reply to Pedro Gabriel

The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II

On offices as hell, Severance, and white-collar work

What it Means to be a Body: A Philosophical Primer

AI, the Technocratic Paradigm, and Integral Human Fulfillment

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

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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Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

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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

Concerns about Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight: A Reply to Pedro Gabriel

The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II

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