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The Declaration of Independence at 250: An interview with Bradley J. Birzer

Bradley J. Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College since 1999, is a prolific author and a good friend. He has written books on Russell [...]
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Should Catholics say the “Pledge of Allegiance?”

Many years ago, when my oldest daughter came home from her first day of second grade in our local public elementary school (after having been [...]
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If We Can Keep It

On September 17, 1787, as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention filed out of the Pennsylvania State House, having just finished the most consequential document [...]
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Pope Leo XIV congratulates the U.S. on its 250th anniversary

The pontiff’s letter stressed religious freedom, the right to life, and the contributions of Catholics and immigrants to American history. […]
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America at 250: The Last, Best Hope

I was six years old when America celebrated her Bicentennial. Like so many children of my generation, I can still remember the flags lining neighborhood [...]

The Declaration of Independence at 250: An interview with Bradley J. Birzer

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Carl E. Olson July 4, 2026 2

Bradley J. Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College since 1999, is a prolific author and a good friend. He has written books on Russell Kirk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Dawson, Charles Carroll, and drumming legend [...]

If We Can Keep It

Essay

Jayd Henricks July 3, 2026 0

On September 17, 1787, as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention filed out of the Pennsylvania State House, having just finished the most consequential document most of them would ever sign, a Philadelphia woman named [...]

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Vatican confirms excommunication of SSPX bishops, declares schism

Ishmael Adibuah July 2, 2026 46

Because the traditionalist group consecrated bishops without papal approval, the Vatican issued a decree on July 2 declaring those bishops and their consecrators automatically excommunicated. […]

Essay

What links disintegration? On Rousseau, gnosticism, and Saint Michael

Jose Yulo July 1, 2026 6

The truth will not only “make us free” but it is itself free. We all come in fact to know the same truth, otherwise we could not communicate at all with one another. This is why the [...]

Analysis

Social contagion and the rise and fall of transgenderism

Anne Hendershott June 30, 2026 26

For more than a decade, the United States and much of the Western world witnessed a dramatic rise in transgender identification, especially among female adolescents and young adults. The speed, the scale, and the demographic concentration [...]

Essay

Digging deeper into the “Christian” origins of feminism and of our nation

Dr. Margaret Harper McCarthy June 29, 2026 34

The current debate over the Christian origins of feminism is a lot like the one over the Christian origins of America. It is argued that the Founders of America and the “first wave” feminists were [...]

Analysis

Getting Bible Translations Right: A Case Study from 1 and 2 Timothy

Rev. Msgr. C. Anthony Ziccardi, S.T.D., S.S.L. June 28, 2026 8

In a recent address, Pope Leo XIV counseled priests not to rely on artificial intelligence for the composition of their homilies: Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if [...]

Features

Opinion: The U.S. bishops missed an opportunity with changes to the “Charter”

Michael J. Mazza June 27, 2026 61

The internet buzzed after the U.S. bishops consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Orlando on Thursday. June 11. Catholic news outlets and bloggers mostly raved enthusiastically, while the secular media propagated [...]

The challenge of applying Catholic social teaching

James Kalb June 18, 2026 27

Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, which, he had prophesied, was doomed to end in catastrophe. He lived without worldly ties: without a job, wife, children, steady source of income, [...]
Catholic morality and social concerns

James Kalb June 2, 2026 50
Why I think Magnifica Humanitas is a pointed and prophetic gut punch

Larry Chapp May 27, 2026 82

Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 176

“Indeed it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity.” — Saint Augustine, Confessions (quoted in CCC 2340) “I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by [...]
The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 131
The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 151

The Declaration of Independence at 250: An interview with Bradley J. Birzer

Should Catholics say the “Pledge of Allegiance?”

If We Can Keep It

Pope Leo XIV congratulates the U.S. on its 250th anniversary

America at 250: The Last, Best Hope

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The Declaration of Independence at 250: An interview with Bradley J. Birzer

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Digging deeper into the “Christian” origins of feminism and of our nation

Getting Bible Translations Right: A Case Study from 1 and 2 Timothy

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