“Bonkers,” is the only word for the week that was, especially on the Catholic news beat, and with particular regard for a set of official questions called dubia in the technical language of ecclesialese. For […]
By virtue of its title, Laudate Deum invites us to return to St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures and to meditate upon his imitation of “the sensitivity of Jesus before the creatures of his Father,” […]
Editor’s note: This is the first of several essays on the recently released apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum that CWR will posting over the next week. Days before its October 4 release, social media was […]
Those most enthusiastic about the Synod on Synodality that opens on October 4 are wont to say that it’s the most important Catholic event since the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) – a claim that sometimes […]
Historians will not want for points from which to date the breakdown of Pope Francis’s reign. Whether it was the appalling rehabilitation of disgraced Cardinal Godfried Danneels – who was on the loggia when Francis […]
How bad is this Rupnik business? It is very, very bad. The Rupnik business is worse—by orders of magnitude—than l’Affaire Barros, l’Affaire Inzoli, worse even than l’Affaire Zanchetta. The disgraceful rehabilitation of Danneels is mere […]
The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the final day of 2022 presents a continued opportunity to revisit and evaluate his legacy as a theologian, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the […]
A theological debate is being played out in the Catholic world, a debate whose ramifications are large. In its latest iteration, it began with Cardinal-elect Américo Aguiar, the Lisbon auxiliary bishop in charge of preparations […]
On September 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II issued Fides et Ratio (“Faith and Reason,” Latin text, English translation), an encyclical letter on the relationship between faith and reason — or, to translate the […]
Warning: This essay contains graphic language about surgical procedures that are not appropriate for younger readers. The summer of 2022 was the summer of Kate Bush’s classic song “Running Up That Hill”. The 80’s hit […]
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