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European bishops warn against allowing erasure of ‘theological reality’ of baptismal records

The bishops argued that allowing the baptized to erase their records would encroach on religious liberty and negatively affect internal Church matters. […]
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Baby safety begins long before birth

Covering wall outlets and sharp corners on furniture, blocking staircases, using proper car safety seats, cutting food into small pieces, nursing and feeding babies nutritional [...]
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The Church, Excommunication, and Reconciliation

Readings: • Ez 33:7-9 • Psa 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 13:8-10 • Mat 18:15-20 Here’s a simple truth that I’ve learned over the years: [...]
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From the archives: “Mother changed my life”: Friends remember Mother Teresa

Editor’s note: This piece was posted originally on August 29, 2016, leading up to the September 6, 2016, canonization of Mother Teresa. It is reposted [...]
Essay

Benedict the Outlier?

Was Pope Benedict XVI an “outlier”? That is the view of Mike Lewis on the liturgical views of Pope Benedict XVI. Writing at “Where Peter [...]

Benedict the Outlier?

Essay

John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. September 4, 2026 30

Was Pope Benedict XVI an “outlier”? That is the view of Mike Lewis on the liturgical views of Pope Benedict XVI. Writing at “Where Peter Is,” Lewis casts Ratzinger–before, during, and after his pontificate–as an [...]

Making sense of the surreal storm of the support for Lindsay Clancy

Essay

Anne Hendershott September 3, 2026 89

Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother charged with murdering her three young children, had become a rallying point for thousands of women who believed she was the true victim. During her trial, more than 300 women [...]

Chapp's Schtick

In defense of moral agency and the necessary pursuit of holiness

Larry Chapp September 2, 2026 11

The biblical narrative of redemption is rendered pointless and ultimately incomprehensible in a culture that has been bleached of a real sense of the importance of moral agency—the ability to choose freely right and wrong, [...]

Features

The Church cannot declare war on Latin Mass devotees, Cardinal Robert Sarah says

ACI Digital September 1, 2026 132

The cardinal praised Pope Benedict’s 2007 decision to allow the faithful greater access to the Latin Mass but called Pope Francis’ 2021 decision to restrict it neither “sensible” nor “respectful.” […]

Columns

Putting Down Roots: Care for Creation Begins Close to Home

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. August 31, 2026 24

I know better than to declare victory before the summer is over, but this has been the first year in quite a while that our pumpkin, watermelon, and cantaloupe vines have all made it through [...]

Essay

No Reconciliation without Contrition and Confession

Tracey Rowland August 30, 2026 74

It was highly amusing for me to read the comments to my “Winnowing Weasel Words” piece, recently published by CWR. First, I was described as an American, and then, when the editor pointed out that [...]

Books

T.S. Eliot’s Complete Simplicity

Edward Short August 29, 2026 2

In her admirably updated and revised critical biography, T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Lyndall Gordon plunders the various works of her subject to show how suffused they are with the travails of the life, especially the [...]

Essay

Why Catholics should reject the month and myth of “trangendered Saints”

Mary Rice Hasson, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer August 27, 2026 25

It’s worth noting that there were fewer Pride flags and celebrations this June than in years past. But Catholics never needed the secular calendar’s permission to know that June actually belongs to the Sacred Heart [...]

In defense of moral agency and the necessary pursuit of holiness

Larry Chapp September 2, 2026 11

The biblical narrative of redemption is rendered pointless and ultimately incomprehensible in a culture that has been bleached of a real sense of the importance of moral agency—the ability to choose freely right and wrong, [...]
Putting Down Roots: Care for Creation Begins Close to Home

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. August 31, 2026 24
Babel today

James Kalb August 24, 2026 58

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 131

European bishops warn against allowing erasure of ‘theological reality’ of baptismal records

Baby safety begins long before birth

The Church, Excommunication, and Reconciliation

From the archives: “Mother changed my life”: Friends remember Mother Teresa

Benedict the Outlier?

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Benedict the Outlier?

Making sense of the surreal storm of the support for Lindsay Clancy

In defense of moral agency and the necessary pursuit of holiness

The Church cannot declare war on Latin Mass devotees, Cardinal Robert Sarah says

Putting Down Roots: Care for Creation Begins Close to Home

No Reconciliation without Contrition and Confession

T.S. Eliot’s Complete Simplicity

Why Catholics should reject the month and myth of “trangendered Saints”

Columns

In defense of moral agency and the necessary pursuit of holiness

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