The Creative Catholic: Carl E. Olson

Archbishop Naumann, Cardinal Cupich, and the mysterious middle finger

By Carl E. Olson on Nov 15, 2017 12:01 am
While Naumann has shown that he is a warrior and a leader—who can also dialogue when the moment calls for dialogue—it's not evident at all [...]
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The Creative Catholic: Carl E. Olson

By K. V. Turley on Nov 14, 2017 11:41 pm
CWR’s editor on writing: “Both a joy and a responsibility…it is full of demands and full of graces.” [...]
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Now is the time for a “Third Spring” in England

By Dr. Jack Scarisbrick on Nov 14, 2017 06:39 pm
Famously, in 1852 John Henry Newman, preaching at a celebration of that restoration of our Hierarchy, spoke of a ‘Second Spring’. This yielded a rich [...]
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Archbishop Naumann elected US bishops’ pro-life committee chair

By Catholic News Agency on Nov 14, 2017 12:40 pm
Archbishop Naumann won the pro-life committee with 96 votes, or 54 percent. The other candidate, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, garnered 82 votes, or 46 [...]
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The HollyChurch Double Standard

By Patrick Coffin on Nov 13, 2017 03:50 pm
God willing, if the long Lent of 2002 led to badly needed reforms for the Catholic Church, the long fall of 2017 will do the [...]
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Focusing again on the Four Last Things

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Nov 12, 2017 04:02 pm
Our Christian goal ought to be nothing short of Heaven – not escaping Hell by the skin of our teeth, nor being resigned to “doing [...]
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Virgins and vigilance

By Carl E. Olson on Nov 11, 2017 03:45 pm
On the Readings for Sunday, November 12, 2017 [...]
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The dramatic story of the priest who died on a Vietnam battlefield

By Brian O'Neel on Nov 11, 2017 02:20 pm
In his death on the battlefield and in all his time serving men in battle, Fr.Vincent Capodanno completely ignored the basic instinct for survival. He [...]
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Is there really a definitive teaching of the Church on capital punishment?

By Robert Fastiggi on Nov 10, 2017 11:58 am
A second response to Professor Edward Feser [...]
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“What a piece of work is man”: A review of Roger Scruton’s “On Human Nature”

By Jerry Salyer on Nov 09, 2017 08:58 pm
Scruton's book makes evident that in order to think correctly about the person we need to think less like liberals, and more like Aristotleans. Or better [...]
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