Nearly three years ago now, I published a book on Orthodoxy and papal primacy and, at risk of being immodest, have since felt more and more that I had said everything that needed to be […]
Readings: • is 42:1-4, 6-7 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 • Acts 10:34-38 • Mt 3:13-17 Was it fitting and necessary for Jesus to be baptized? It is an important question the answer says […]
This week at CWR we’re featuring two articles on closely related topics: the spread of non-invasive, highly accurate prenatal testing for Down syndrome (and the expected increase in abortion of unborn babies diagnosed with Down […]
On August 15, 2013, developmental biologist Jeanne Lawrence reported what many had previously considered inconceivable. [1] Her research team successfully silenced the extra chromosome 21 in Down syndrome (DS) stem cells. That is, in laboratory-grown cells, […]
Four years ago, when passage or defeat of the Affordable Care Act appeared to rest in the hands of a small group of prolife House Democrats, President Obama won their support for the health care […]
If I had been asked a few days ago, “What CWR articles were mostly widely read and viewed in 2013?’, I would have guessed that articles about the resignation of Benedict XVI and the election […]
In the last two or three years, at high schools from Florida to Illinois, students have been forsaking quarterbacks and cheerleading captains and electing teenagers with Down syndrome to be homecoming kings and queens. Last […]
Peter D. Beaulieu, author of Beyond Secularism and Jihad?: A Triangular Inquiry into the Mosque, the Manger, and Modernity (University Press of America/Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), sent the following note in response to my Dec. […]
On July 5, 2013, jubilant Vietnamese Catholics celebrated the closing of the diocesan phase of Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan’s beatification process. Although he is not yet canonized, the Vietnamese faithful already consider him […]
John Allen, the veteran Vatican reporter who has covered Catholicism and the Holy See for the National Catholic Reporter for more than a decade, will be leaving that publication and joining the Boston Globe as […]
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