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Media narrative about nuncio’s Pentagon meeting untrue, Vatican says

The Vatican responded to a media report claiming Cardinal Christophe Pierre, then-papal envoy to the U.S., received “a bitter lecture” in a meeting with U.S. defense officials. […]
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The art of celebrating the Easter season

Easter is the feast of all feasts, and its fifty-day season stands atop the liturgical year as its climax. While we might recognize this reality, [...]
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The implications for religious freedom in Zinski v. Liberty University

The latest battle in the sexual revolution, placing religious freedom at risk, emerged in Zinski v. Liberty University (Feb. 2025). Controversy arose after Liberty officials [...]
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Concordat with Vatican halted in Czech Republic over seal of confession

Experts say the ruling is a setback for religious freedom in one of Europe’s most secular countries, where a concordat had been decades in the making. […]
Chapp's Schtick

In gratitude for the Ordinariate

Recently, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document on the importance of the Anglican Ordinariates. The text has a long and [...]

In gratitude for the Ordinariate

Chapp's Schtick

Larry Chapp April 8, 2026 30

Recently, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document on the importance of the Anglican Ordinariates. The text has a long and rather awkward title: “Characteristics of the Anglican Heritage as Lived [...]

How much emphasis on politics? And to what end?

Columns

James Kalb April 7, 2026 42

People today expect politics to give more than it can, often to the point of secular utopianism. There are two basic reasons for that. The first is a decline in transcendental faith. People need an [...]

Books

Disenchantment or Desecration? An interview with Carl R. Trueman

Carl E. Olson April 6, 2026 30

Carl R. Trueman is a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, as well as a prolific author. Last year, we conversed [...]

Features

The Relevance of the Resurrection

Dr. Randall B. Smith April 5, 2026 22

Christ’s glorified body tells us that the promise of eternal life which Jesus’s death and resurrection has opened up for us results not in obliteration […]

Features

Claire Lai: “My dad wants people to reflect on Our Savior’s suffering for us…”

Jim Graves April 4, 2026 1

Claire Lai, daughter of imprisoned Hong Kong democracy advocate and devout Catholic convert Jimmy Lai, has become a prominent advocate for the release of her 78-year-old father, believing his conviction for colluding with foreign Chinese [...]

Essay

To Dwell in the Side of Christ

Matthew Becklo April 3, 2026 6

In his Introduction to the Devout Life, Saint Francis de Sales recounts the following story about the fourteenth-century saint Elzear of Sabran: When the blessed Elzear, Count of the Provence of Arian, had been long separated [...]

Essay

The Easter Triduum and Three Essentials

Carl E. Olson April 2, 2026 6

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son [...]

Essay

Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part Two

Matthew Walz April 1, 2026 4

Editor’s note: You can read Part One of this essay here. IV The best way to describe how matrimony and the family animate Leo’s magisterial approach to the social question is to speak of their [...]

In gratitude for the Ordinariate

Larry Chapp April 8, 2026 30

Recently, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document on the importance of the Anglican Ordinariates. The text has a long and rather awkward title: “Characteristics of the Anglican Heritage as Lived [...]
How much emphasis on politics? And to what end?

James Kalb April 7, 2026 42
Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. March 22, 2026 5

The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 131

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

Media narrative about nuncio’s Pentagon meeting untrue, Vatican says

The art of celebrating the Easter season

The implications for religious freedom in Zinski v. Liberty University

Concordat with Vatican halted in Czech Republic over seal of confession

In gratitude for the Ordinariate

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In gratitude for the Ordinariate

How much emphasis on politics? And to what end?

Disenchantment or Desecration? An interview with Carl R. Trueman

The Relevance of the Resurrection

Claire Lai: “My dad wants people to reflect on Our Savior’s suffering for us…”

To Dwell in the Side of Christ

The Easter Triduum and Three Essentials

Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part Two

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In gratitude for the Ordinariate

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The Politics of Three Cardinals

Disenchantment or Desecration? An interview with Carl R. Trueman

Claire Lai: “My dad wants people to reflect on Our Savior’s suffering for us…”

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A unique fairy tale meant to give “Escape and Consolation”

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The Easter Triduum and Three Essentials

Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part Two

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