Catholic World Report – Global Church news and views

The Dispatch

Vatican approves liturgical adaptations for Indigenous communities in Mexico

Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, bishop emeritus of San Cristóbal de las Casas in the Mexican state of Chiapas, expressed his hope that the approval of a series of liturgical adaptations for Indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Chia… […]
Analysis

Cause for conflict: The Catholic Church and property rights in American law

In what is now a decades-long trend, reports of American Catholic dioceses declaring bankruptcy continue to filter into the news. To a large extent, this [...]
The Dispatch

What is “the Heroic Act of Charity”? An introduction and primer

In a previous essay, I wrote about why prayer for the dead is a necessity—not just a “nice thing to do” during November. For all [...]
The Dispatch

‘With God, everything; without God, nothing’: principles of a Catholic family business

Carnicerías Jiménez founder José Jiménez and his daughter Luz Maribel, the Chicago grocery chain’s human resources director. / Credit: Courtesy of Luz Maribel Jiménez

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 17, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).
“With God, everything; witho… […]
Essay

Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF

Pro-lifers should rejoice in the defeat of Kamala Harris, and of the Democratic Party, which remains the greatest threat to the unborn in American politics. [...]

Cause for conflict: The Catholic Church and property rights in American law

Analysis

Kevin Schmiesing November 18, 2024 3

In what is now a decades-long trend, reports of American Catholic dioceses declaring bankruptcy continue to filter into the news. To a large extent, this financial retreat is fallout from the ongoing clergy sexual abuse [...]

Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF

Essay

Dr. Edward Feser November 17, 2024 65

Pro-lifers should rejoice in the defeat of Kamala Harris, and of the Democratic Party, which remains the greatest threat to the unborn in American politics. But they cannot rest, because their job is only half [...]

Essay

On the history and feast of the “Protection of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn”

Father Seán Connolly November 16, 2024 2

An intriguing medieval fresco can be found in the church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg, France. It depicts fifteen kings processing by horseback, each carrying a standard bearing the name of his respective nation. The image [...]

Features

“We need to know where we are going”: An interview with Bishop Erik Varden

Carl E. Olson November 14, 2024 15

Bishop Erik Varden was born in Norway in 1974, into a non-practicing Lutheran family, and entered the Catholic Church in June 1993. In 2002, after ten years of study at the University of Cambridge, he [...]

Features

Catholic Imagination Conference, focused on past and future, continues to grow

Michael Mastromatteo November 13, 2024 3

NOTRE DAME, IN – What began nine years ago as a small-scale effort to re-emphasize a Catholic consciousness in fiction, poetry, and other fine arts has now grown into something much more comprehensive. The Biennial [...]

Features

Liturgical Musical Chairs

Peter M.J. Stravinskas November 12, 2024 31

By now, most readers will have heard about the whiplash emanating from the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, as Bishop Shawn McKnight’s decree of October 28 on liturgical music was revoked by November 5. The original document arose from [...]

Books

What translation of Augustine’s Confessions should I read?

Dr. Jared Ortiz November 11, 2024 30

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this essay was posted at CWR on January 25, 2021. The author has now added two recent translations—Peter Constantine (2018) and Anthony Esolen (2023)—and has lightly edited some of [...]

Essay

Letter from Leyte, eighty years ago

George Weigel November 10, 2024 8

In November 1944, my father, Ensign George S. Weigel, USNR, was serving as executive officer of USS APc 18: a coastal patrol and transport ship, armed with four 20 mm. anti-aircraft guns, that would eventually [...]

Étienne Gilson and post-conciliar theology

Dr. Christopher Shannon November 9, 2024 16

Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain were the leading Catholic public intellectuals of the middle decades of the twentieth century. Major figures in the Thomistic revival within Catholic intellectual life, they were also ambassadors to the [...]
Scripture, science, and non-believers: Further insights from Benedict XVI

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. November 6, 2024 13
The Church in an age of anxiety

James Kalb November 4, 2024 15

Reflections on a dozen years as editor of Catholic World Report

Carl E. Olson November 2, 2024 25

A week ago, I was in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, at Saint Vincent College, attending the 32nd annual conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. I am not a member of the Society, but I was [...]
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2024 57
Welcome to the Church of Perpetual Change and Confusion

Carl E. Olson October 19, 2023 74

Vatican approves liturgical adaptations for Indigenous communities in Mexico

Cause for conflict: The Catholic Church and property rights in American law

What is “the Heroic Act of Charity”? An introduction and primer

‘With God, everything; without God, nothing’: principles of a Catholic family business

Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF

Latest Features

Cause for conflict: The Catholic Church and property rights in American law

Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF

On the history and feast of the “Protection of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn”

“We need to know where we are going”: An interview with Bishop Erik Varden

Catholic Imagination Conference, focused on past and future, continues to grow

Liturgical Musical Chairs

What translation of Augustine’s Confessions should I read?

Letter from Leyte, eighty years ago

Columns

Étienne Gilson and post-conciliar theology

Editorial

Reflections on a dozen years as editor of Catholic World Report

“We need to know where we are going”: An interview with Bishop Erik Varden

The Hermit is the powerful story of “a priest who showed no fear”

From the Messianic Movement to Catholicism: An interview with Matthew Wiseman

What translation of Augustine’s Confessions should I read?

The Hermit is the powerful story of “a priest who showed no fear”

Rediscovering the Enchanted Universe: A review of Living in Wonder

Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF

On the history and feast of the “Protection of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn”

What translation of Augustine’s Confessions should I read?

Catholic Imagination Conference, focused on past and future, continues to grow

Clinging to faith amid the chaos and destruction of the Myanmar War

Encountering Christ the Healer in MyCatholicDoctor

The Dispatch: More from CWR

Follow CWR on Facebook

Join Our Free Newsletter

Most Recent

News in Pictures

Full text: Pope Francis’ Midnight Mass Homily

Follow CWR on Facebook

Join Our Free Newsletter

Most Recent

Categories

News in Pictures