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Trading in on a name: Emerald Fennell’s ersatz Wuthering Heights

Editor’s note: This review contains some strong language and descriptions relating to sex. Last week, I attended the New Year’s celebration at the Chinese Embassy [...]
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Pope Leo XIV insists on his freedom to defend truth in turbulent times

The pontiff said he must be free to denounce injustice amid today’s challenges. Pope Leo XIV said the successor of Peter must retain “complete freedom [...]
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Only The Lover Fasts

Why should we do it? Why do those ascetical practices in Lent or any other time? Why bother with this self-discipline, this extra penance, especially [...]
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“Extra, extra!” News and views for Wednesday, February 18, 2026

A defense of Scott Hahn and the Hahn School (Catholic Culture): “Readers of this column know that I occasionally opine on matters of Biblical scholarship about [...]
Essay

Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

Since all human sin has its origins in that “original” sin of our first parents, let’s go back to that very beginning. […]

Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

Essay

Peter M.J. Stravinskas February 17, 2026 11

Since all human sin has its origins in that “original” sin of our first parents, let’s go back to that very beginning. […]

The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

Features

J. J. Ziegler February 15, 2026 1

In the eleventh canto of his Paradiso, Dante wrote that there “rose upon the world a sun,” a man who shone with love for Lady Poverty, as no man had since Christ: She, reft of her first [...]

Features

Head of U.S. bishops joins call for Notre Dame to drop appointment of pro-abortion professor

Daniel Payne February 14, 2026 36

The school has indicated it will stick by its decision for Professor Susan Ostermann to lead a university institute. […]

Features

Church kidnappings plague Nigeria as clerics declare nation a “failed state”

Ngala Killian Chimtom February 13, 2026 4

A wave of terror has swept through central Nigeria, marked by a series of brazen kidnappings and killings. The most recent incident occurred on February 6, when gunmen abducted nine teenage worshippers during a night [...]

Essay

The memory of a Vianney-like priest lay hidden in the West Virginia mountains

Kevin Wells February 12, 2026 15

Few coal miners wanted anything to do with the stranger in the black cassock who arrived in town in 1933. It was the Great Depression in West Virginia—food was scarce and shifts were irregular. So [...]

Books

In praise of Tracey Rowland’s Introducing Communio Theology

Fr. Gregory Morgan February 11, 2026 17

Editor’s note: The following address was given in Sydney, Australia, on February 5th, at the launch of Introducing Communio Theology, written by Professor Tracey Rowland and published by Word on Fire Academic. The late Holy [...]

Analysis

Trans ideology is at the end of the beginning

Kenneth Craycraft February 10, 2026 7

In early November 1942, the Allied forces finally and permanently gained control of Libya and Egypt from the Axis powers following the Second Battle at El Alamein. Along with the November 8 Allied invasion of [...]

Features

On the state of marriage, the original modern sanctuary jurisdiction

John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. February 9, 2026 18

February 7-14 is observed this year as National Marriage Week, intended to promote awareness and appreciation of the institution of marriage. The effort seems particularly timely, given the decline in people getting married (and having [...]

Making sense of Donald Trump

James Kalb February 2, 2026 237

We live in unusual times, and Donald Trump is, to put it mildly, an unusual politician. We need to understand him to deal with him, and with that in mind, I will present my own [...]
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and the road to recovery

Andrew Petiprin January 31, 2026 2
Modernism revisited and ressourcement theology defended

Larry Chapp January 29, 2026 86

The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 126

Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s [...]
The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 151
The Future of Synodality

Carl E. Olson September 7, 2025 56

Trading in on a name: Emerald Fennell’s ersatz Wuthering Heights

Pope Leo XIV insists on his freedom to defend truth in turbulent times

Only The Lover Fasts

“Extra, extra!” News and views for Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

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Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

Head of U.S. bishops joins call for Notre Dame to drop appointment of pro-abortion professor

Church kidnappings plague Nigeria as clerics declare nation a “failed state”

The memory of a Vianney-like priest lay hidden in the West Virginia mountains

In praise of Tracey Rowland’s Introducing Communio Theology

Trans ideology is at the end of the beginning

On the state of marriage, the original modern sanctuary jurisdiction

Columns

Making sense of Donald Trump

Editorial

The Politics of Three Cardinals

New Catholic dating app marries matchmaking tradition with digital era

“We think as well as we read, and we read as well as we kneel!”

A “spiritual entertainment” inspired by faith, international intrigue, and Cardinal Zen

In praise of Tracey Rowland’s Introducing Communio Theology

“We think as well as we read, and we read as well as we kneel!”

A “spiritual entertainment” inspired by faith, international intrigue, and Cardinal Zen

Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

The memory of a Vianney-like priest lay hidden in the West Virginia mountains

In praise of Tracey Rowland’s Introducing Communio Theology

The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

Church kidnappings plague Nigeria as clerics declare nation a “failed state”

“I was sold for $300″: Human trafficking continues to escalate in Africa

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