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Nepal’s Catholic leader urges faithful to vote wisely ahead of landmark elections

The Himalayan nation heads to the polls March 5 in its first parliamentary elections since deadly youth-led protests toppled the government last September. A leading [...]
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Saint Polycarp of Smyrna: Father of the Church and apostle to Protestants

Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was not the first Protestant who decided to become a Catholic after reading the Fathers of the Church. And he’s [...]
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Remembering Angelo Gugel

Those who remember the epic pontificate of St. John Paul II may recall a tall, handsome layman with well combed, iron-grey hair, dressed in a [...]
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Ecclesia in Africa at 30: Cardinal Ambongo calls it an ‘urgent’ roadmap for the continent’s Church

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, the Archbishop of Kinshasa and President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), recently emphasized the enduring [...]
Features

Bishops continue to urge Notre Dame to reverse ‘scandalous’ appointment of pro-abortion professor

U.S. bishops are continuing to criticize the University of Notre Dame over its controversial decision to appoint a pro-abortion professor to lead a university institute. [...]

Saint Polycarp of Smyrna: Father of the Church and apostle to Protestants

Essay

Dawn Beutner February 22, 2026 2

Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was not the first Protestant who decided to become a Catholic after reading the Fathers of the Church. And he’s not alone. The Coming Home Network, a group established to [...]

Bishops continue to urge Notre Dame to reverse ‘scandalous’ appointment of pro-abortion professor

Features

EWTN News February 21, 2026 5

U.S. bishops are continuing to criticize the University of Notre Dame over its controversial decision to appoint a pro-abortion professor to lead a university institute. The school has been under sustained criticism since it announced [...]

Books

Gates of Heaven is the daring conclusion of an unusual, powerful Catholic trilogy

Amy Welborn February 20, 2026 0

In his most recent novel, Gates of Heaven (2025, Wiseblood Books), Glenn Arbery wraps up the complex, fraught, and evocative chronicle of friends, families, and foes working out their salvation in the contemporary American South and West. [...]

Books

Reading and watching during Lent

Kenneth Craycraft February 19, 2026 3

The three pillars of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—must always be our primary focus during these forty days. The purpose—or end—of these disciplines is to grow closer to God through spiritual and corporal works. While we [...]

Essay

Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

Marcus Peter February 18, 2026 72

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 [...]

Essay

Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

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. […]

Features

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 43

The school has indicated it will stick by its decision for Professor Susan Ostermann to lead a university institute. […]

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

Nepal’s Catholic leader urges faithful to vote wisely ahead of landmark elections

Saint Polycarp of Smyrna: Father of the Church and apostle to Protestants

Remembering Angelo Gugel

Ecclesia in Africa at 30: Cardinal Ambongo calls it an ‘urgent’ roadmap for the continent’s Church

Bishops continue to urge Notre Dame to reverse ‘scandalous’ appointment of pro-abortion professor

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Saint Polycarp of Smyrna: Father of the Church and apostle to Protestants

Bishops continue to urge Notre Dame to reverse ‘scandalous’ appointment of pro-abortion professor

Gates of Heaven is the daring conclusion of an unusual, powerful Catholic trilogy

Reading and watching during Lent

Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

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

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Gates of Heaven is the daring conclusion of an unusual, powerful Catholic trilogy

New Catholic dating app marries matchmaking tradition with digital era

“We think as well as we read, and we read as well as we kneel!”

Gates of Heaven is the daring conclusion of an unusual, powerful Catholic trilogy

Reading and watching during Lent

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Saint Polycarp of Smyrna: Father of the Church and apostle to Protestants

Reading and watching during Lent

Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans

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