Today is the Feast of St. Nicholas, and it seems appropriate to resurrect a great piece we ran about the saint last year, “You Better Watch Out—Saint Nicholas is Coming to Town,” by Christopher B. […]
On Monday, December 2 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on behalf of a woman who says that she did not receive adequate […]
MPAA Rating, PG USCCB Rating, A-I Reel Rating: (5 Reels out of 5) [Spoiler alert! Key plot details follow.] Only in a Disney film can a pair of Scandinavian royals from the 18th century doing […]
As the Council of Cardinals meets in Rome this week to discuss reforms of the Roman Curia, it was announced by the Vatican that the Holy Father will establish a commission for the protection of […]
Many dioceses in several countries have reported anecdotal evidence of a recent increase in the number of people approaching the Sacrament of Reconciliation, some of them for the first time in years. The phenomenon is […]
Fifty years ago today, December 4, 1963, Pope Paul VI solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. To mark the 50th anniversary of this significant document, Catholic World Report […]
Thirteen years after Pope John Paul II canonized 120 Catholic saints who were martyred in China, Beijing’s Communist authorities still prohibit Mainland publications on their lives. This means that what most Chinese Catholics hear about […]
Recently after Mass, I started chatting with two elderly women who were comparing notes on how many children they have collectively who have left the Church. Ninety-two-year-old Mary lamented that she has five daughters without […]
[Spoiler alert: This review reveals key plot elements from Hunger Games: Catching Fire.] The first Hunger Games film (see “The Serious Games of Life and Death”, CWR; March 28, 2012) ended with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) […]
This September marked the sixth anniversary of the implementation of Summorum Pontificum, the motu proprio of Pope Benedict XVI that provided juridical recourse to Catholic laymen interested in receiving regular access to the traditional Latin […]
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