Bishop John Barres, 63, has served as Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York (Long Island) since January 2017. He was born in the New York City suburb of Larchmont in 1960; his parents were former […]
Editor’s note: The following post is an excerpt from the commencement address given by Dale Ahlquist at Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts, on Saturday, May 20, 2017. It is reposted today to mark […]
Students on the Annapolis Chesterton Academy soccer team. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Annapolis Chesterton Academy
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Half of all children raised Catholic will go on to abandon the faith, ac… […]
As much as we owe modern Christmas traditions to German and English traditions, there is one to whom we owe special thanks. While the modern tradition of a Christmas crèche with figurines seems to have […]
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 […]
As Americans celebrate their independence from England, it is worth remembering an Englishman, later to be lionized by G. K. Chesterton, who moved to the United States in 1792, when the American nation was in […]
How can Catholics most help the world? The obvious answer is that they would help most if they became saints. If you as a Catholic want to “make a difference,” cultivate sanctity and wholehearted love […]
The Ascension of Jesus Christ, related in the Gospels of Mark and Luke and referred to throughout the New Testament, can be taken as something of an awkward anecdote in the Catholic canon. “And when […]
As we move closer to the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension, the Church invites us to identify with the sentiments of the Apostles as they faced the eventuality of Christ’s departure from them in a […]
We are still in the Easter Octave so it’s not too late to talk about something we often forgot to think about during the Triduum: The Harrowing of Hell. But, before we talk about the […]
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