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Will gender ideology again trump religious freedom in California?

The legal saga of Captain Jeffrey Little, a twenty-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) and a devout evangelical Christian, about which [...]
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How the Feast of Corpus Christi developed

O most noble memorial; to be commemorated in the innermost heart, firmly bound in the soul, diligently kept in the depth of the heart, and [...]
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FBI reportedly fires agents in connection with memo on ‘radical-traditionalist’ Catholics

A field office of the federal bureau had issued a memo on investigating Catholic communities in Virginia over alleged extremism. […]
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Chesterton, the Incarnation, and discovering the truth about the Eucharist

Readings: • Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a • Psa 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 • 1 Cor 10:16-17 • Jn 6:51-58 The English author G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was [...]
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“We have lived a lie for 65 years”: Bishop Bushu on Cameroon’s deep divisions

As the bishops of Cameroon renew calls for peace during their 51st Plenary Assembly, a retired bishop from the country’s conflict-afflicted Southwest Region has issued [...]

How the Feast of Corpus Christi developed

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Sandra Miesel June 6, 2026 15

O most noble memorial; to be commemorated in the innermost heart, firmly bound in the soul, diligently kept in the depth of the heart, and recalled by earnest meditation and celebration. – Pope Urban IV, [...]

“We have lived a lie for 65 years”: Bishop Bushu on Cameroon’s deep divisions

Features

Ngala Killian Chimtom June 5, 2026 3

As the bishops of Cameroon renew calls for peace during their 51st Plenary Assembly, a retired bishop from the country’s conflict-afflicted Southwest Region has issued a stinging critique aimed at the way the country’s English-speaking [...]

Analysis

The Global Future of the Catholic Church

Jayd Henricks June 5, 2026 19

In recent months, there have been several articles in both Catholic and secular press noting an uptick in interest in the Catholic Church among young adults in the United States. While encouraging, some of the [...]

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“My missionary life was an adventure of the heart”: An interview with Fr. Barry Martinson, S.J.

Paul Senz June 3, 2026 0

The work of a missionary is often trying, but the missionaries themselves are usually the first to tell you what a tremendous blessing it is. Father Barry Martinson, S.J., is one such missionary. He has [...]

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Catholic morality and social concerns

James Kalb June 2, 2026 48

Pope Leo recently said, in response to a question about the effect of Cardinal Marx’s promotion of blessings for same-sex couples on church unity, The unity or division of the Church should not revolve around [...]

Features

Dawn Amidst the Darkness: Dispatch from New York City

Fr. Eric J. Banecker June 1, 2026 7

I found myself with a free morning in New York City and decided to do some reconnaissance work at Saint Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village. St. Joseph’s has recently been highlighted as a lodestar of [...]

Analysis

The Eastern Lung of Pope Leo’s first encyclical

Ines Angeli Murzaku May 31, 2026 2

As widely commentated, the most obvious continuity framework for Magnifica Humanitas is Rerum Novarum (1891). The Holy See presented Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical as a document on “safeguarding the human person in the time of Artificial Intelligence,” signed on May 15, [...]

Analysis

Continuity and Clarification: On Pope Leo, Pope Francis, and Magnifica Humanitas

Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. May 30, 2026 11

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas (MH), has received considerable attention, including from sources not ordinarily interested in papal documents. The reason is understandable, given the attention it gives to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Pope [...]

Catholic morality and social concerns

James Kalb June 2, 2026 48

Pope Leo recently said, in response to a question about the effect of Cardinal Marx’s promotion of blessings for same-sex couples on church unity, The unity or division of the Church should not revolve around [...]
Why I think Magnifica Humanitas is a pointed and prophetic gut punch

Larry Chapp May 27, 2026 58
Magnifica Humanitas: The Human Person Between Glory and Fragility

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. May 26, 2026 7

Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 173

“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

Will gender ideology again trump religious freedom in California?

How the Feast of Corpus Christi developed

FBI reportedly fires agents in connection with memo on ‘radical-traditionalist’ Catholics

Chesterton, the Incarnation, and discovering the truth about the Eucharist

“We have lived a lie for 65 years”: Bishop Bushu on Cameroon’s deep divisions

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