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Welcome home! A record number of converts to enter the Church this Easter

The numbers are in, and they are staggering. Across the United States and around the world, the number of converts entering the Catholic Church at [...]
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Holy Week in Song and Verse

When I was confirmed in the Church during graduate school, I would not have said, as many other converts do, that my conversion was initiated [...]
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Bishop William Murphy Remembered

William Francis Murphy, the emeritus bishop of Rockville Centre who died on March 26 at age 85, was not a household name in American Catholicism. [...]
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The Paschal Mystery: Our Exodus from Death to Life

Do you feel stuck in the spiritual life, like something is holding you back? Did Lent fall short of bringing about deeper conversion? Holy Week, [...]
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Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part One

Editor’s note: The following piece is the first part of a two-part essay. I In 1846, John Henry Newman traveled to Rome to see if he [...]

Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part One

Essay

Matthew Walz March 29, 2026 2

Editor’s note: The following piece is the first part of a two-part essay. I In 1846, John Henry Newman traveled to Rome to see if he could arrange to undertake seminary studies for the Catholic priesthood. [...]

Africa’s second exodus

Features

Ngala Killian Chimtom March 28, 2026 2

When reports confirmed that thousands of young Africans had been lured into fighting for Russia in its war on Ukraine, the world reacted with shock and outrage. For Fr. Augustine Anwuchie, however, it was not [...]

Analysis

A Question of Perspective: Who Gets Fired and Why?

Dr. Randall B. Smith March 27, 2026 13

It has been ranked “as among the most significant developments in moral theology in the past fifty years.” This was how the late Fr. Richard McCormick described Catholic University of America’s decision in 1988 to [...]

Features

The Left’s cancellation of Cesar Chavez looks bad either way

David Paul Deavel March 26, 2026 48

Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared in AMAC’s “Newsline” and is reposted here with kind permission Though the power of the #MeToo movement peaked long ago, the Left’s cancellation machine kicked into gear this past [...]

Essay

Flannery O’Connor’s “both/and” vision of reality

Matthew Becklo March 25, 2026 25

In the wake of Flannery O’Connor’s death on March 25, 1965, the Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton said, “When I read Flannery O’Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, [...]

Books

Introducing Communio Theology: An interview with Tracey Rowland

Carl E. Olson March 24, 2026 9

Tracey Rowland holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Australia). She received her PhD from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and her STL and STD [...]

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Cardinal Newman: Doctor of Catholic Education, Part Two

Peter M.J. Stravinskas March 23, 2026 2

Editor’s note: The following is Part Two of an address given to The Thomistic Institute of Fordham University on February 26, 2026 (read Part One). 3. Does a Catholic university have a distinctive curriculum? John Paul [...]

Columns

Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. March 22, 2026 5

It’s no secret that we are inhabiting a moment in which digitalization is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace. Day by day, screens, algorithms, and infrastructures of virtual reality are becoming the dominant frame [...]

Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. March 22, 2026 5

It’s no secret that we are inhabiting a moment in which digitalization is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace. Day by day, screens, algorithms, and infrastructures of virtual reality are becoming the dominant frame [...]
On Tracey Rowland’s important Introduction to Communio Theology

Larry Chapp March 12, 2026 24
Immigration, enforcement, and Catholics

James Kalb March 2, 2026 77

The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 131

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

Welcome home! A record number of converts to enter the Church this Easter

Holy Week in Song and Verse

Bishop William Murphy Remembered

The Paschal Mystery: Our Exodus from Death to Life

Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part One

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Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part One

Africa’s second exodus

A Question of Perspective: Who Gets Fired and Why?

The Left’s cancellation of Cesar Chavez looks bad either way

Flannery O’Connor’s “both/and” vision of reality

Introducing Communio Theology: An interview with Tracey Rowland

Cardinal Newman: Doctor of Catholic Education, Part Two

Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits

Columns

Incarnate Transcendence in an Age of Transhumanist Counterfeits

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The Politics of Three Cardinals

Introducing Communio Theology: An interview with Tracey Rowland

Young Catholic men discuss the state of dating and relationships today

A unique fairy tale meant to give “Escape and Consolation”

Introducing Communio Theology: An interview with Tracey Rowland

A unique fairy tale meant to give “Escape and Consolation”

Silence of the Gods chronicles the obscure paganism of eastern Europe

Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part One

Flannery O’Connor’s “both/and” vision of reality

Cardinal Newman: Doctor of Catholic Education, Part Two

Africa’s second exodus

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