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What the Vatican’s recent decision on the homily teaches about the Church

The recent decision of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), in conjunction with the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of [...]
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The digital age primed us to exploit and to be exploited

From the inception of the Internet, we’ve known that there is a distance between who we are as embodied souls struggling through a fallen world [...]
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Vatican October meeting to focus on divorce, other family issues

Pope Leo XIV has called the presidents of bishops’ conferences to Rome Oct. 7–14 for a weeklong gathering on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia.” […]
Essay

Theology of the body and the reality of our mortality

My teen son noticed I was a bit quieter than usual as we sat, waiting for Mass to begin. Nothing was wrong, just a bit [...]
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The Incarnation and three metaphysical paradoxes

Readings: • Zech 9:9-10 • Psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 • Rom 8:9, 11-13 • Matt 11:25-30 The literary critic Hugh Kenner, in Paradox in Chesterton [...]

What the Vatican’s recent decision on the homily teaches about the Church

Analysis

Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D. July 6, 2026 11

The recent decision of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), in conjunction with the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, rejected the request of the German Bishops’ Conference [...]

Theology of the body and the reality of our mortality

Essay

Shemaiah Gonzalez July 5, 2026 11

My teen son noticed I was a bit quieter than usual as we sat, waiting for Mass to begin. Nothing was wrong, just a bit of fatigue and distraction. But he is the son most [...]

Books

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

Carl E. Olson July 4, 2026 22

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 [...]

Essay

If We Can Keep It

Jayd Henricks July 3, 2026 45

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 [...]

Features

Vatican confirms excommunication of SSPX bishops, declares schism

Ishmael Adibuah July 2, 2026 108

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 7

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 29

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 [...]

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 83

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

What the Vatican’s recent decision on the homily teaches about the Church

The digital age primed us to exploit and to be exploited

Vatican October meeting to focus on divorce, other family issues

Theology of the body and the reality of our mortality

The Incarnation and three metaphysical paradoxes

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What the Vatican’s recent decision on the homily teaches about the Church

Theology of the body and the reality of our mortality

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

If We Can Keep It

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

Social contagion and the rise and fall of transgenderism

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