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Cultivating pro-life values at home through the Culture of Life Studies Program

For nearly 12 years, American Life League’s Culture of Life Studies Program has served parents, teachers, and students by providing authentically Catholic pro-life materials for kids [...]
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Catholic health provider agrees to $42 million settlement in class-action retirement lawsuit

The lawsuit alleged that Providence Health had failed to adhere to the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act in managing the company’s 401(k) plan. The [...]
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Bishops: Trump advanced gender‑policy freedoms while eroding protections for migrants

The USCCB’s report warns of threats to religious liberty, citing political violence, limits on ministry in federal systems, and policies affecting schools, detainees, and religious [...]
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Virginia Catholic bishops thank state lawmakers for rejecting assisted suicide bills

Legislative committees in both chambers of the Virginia Legislature chose not to advance bills to legalize physician assisted suicide. Both Catholic bishops in the commonwealth [...]
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Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

As the nation marks Jesse Jackson’s death at age 84, I realize that the temptation will be either to canonize the man as an icon [...]

Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

Essay

Marcus Peter February 18, 2026 7

As the nation marks Jesse Jackson’s death at age 84, I realize that the temptation will be either to canonize the man as an icon of civil rights sainthood or to dismiss him as a [...]

Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

Essay

Peter M.J. Stravinskas February 17, 2026 14

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

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The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

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 39

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 [...]

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

Cultivating pro-life values at home through the Culture of Life Studies Program

Catholic health provider agrees to $42 million settlement in class-action retirement lawsuit

Bishops: Trump advanced gender‑policy freedoms while eroding protections for migrants

Virginia Catholic bishops thank state lawmakers for rejecting assisted suicide bills

Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

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Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

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

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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

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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

Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

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

The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

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

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