Retrieving the best of the past in order to serve the future: An interview with Jason C. Paone
By Carl E. Olson on May 17, 2025 08:00 pmJason C. Paone, PhD, is the editor of Word on Fire Academic and a Managing Editor of The New Ressourcement journal. He studied the classics and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving [...]
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Relationship or “Rule-lationship”? Or Both?
By Carl E. Olson on May 17, 2025 12:00 pmReadings: • Acts 14:21-27 • Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 • Rev 21:1-5a • Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35 Among the criticisms I once had, as an Evangelical, was that Catholics were too concerned with “The Church.” They [...]
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Catholic Education Foundation hosts July seminar on the role of priests in schools
By CWR Staff on May 17, 2025 11:14 amThe Catholic Education Foundation is hosting its 11th annual seminar on the role of the priest in today’s Catholic school from July 15-17, 2025, at The Athenaeum of Ohio in Cincinnati. The intended audience is bishops, priests, and seminarians [...]
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A grateful perspective from Saint Peter’s Square
By Larry Chapp on May 16, 2025 11:25 pmMuch ink has already been spilled on the topic of Pope Leo XIV, and I have no great insights to offer on how he will guide the Church. I am reminded of a conversation a [...]
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Roe rolls on in Michigan and beyond
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on May 16, 2025 08:03 pmJudge Sima Patel of the Michigan Court of Claims, on May 13th, struck down three abortion-related provisions in Michigan law. The provisions required that a woman contemplating abortion be provided with the ultrasound image of [...]
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Cardinal Parolin doesn’t rule out Pope Leo XIV going to Nicaea
By Catholic News Agency on May 16, 2025 02:00 pmCardinal Pietro Parolin speaks to EWTN News in Oslo, Norway, on Jan. 17, 2025. / Credit: Fabio Gonella/EWTN News Vatican City, May 16, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, has not ruled out the possibility... [...]
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Napa Institute’s Summer Conference based around “Doers of the Word” theme
By Jim Graves on May 22, 2025 10:32 pmThe Napa Institute will present its 15th annual Summer Conference at The Meritage Resort and Spa, 875 Bordeaux Way, Napa, California, from July 23 to 27, 2025. The conference features presentations by prominent Catholic speakers, [...]
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In Newman’s Home
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on May 22, 2025 02:26 pmContemporary theology receives its purpose from God. It receives its shape from St. John Henry Newman, who, as Joseph Ratzinger stated on the English cardinal’s centenary in 1990, made “his decisive contribution to the renewal [...]
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Old and New: The American Pope takes on AI
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on May 22, 2025 04:00 amPope Leo XIV surprised the cardinals with the choice of his papal name and then did the same when he announced his intention to focus on the AI Revolution. When he addressed the College of [...]
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In new interview, JD Vance explains how his Catholic faith informs his political views
By Catholic News Agency on May 21, 2025 04:02 pmPope Leo XIV shakes hands with U.S. President JD Vance in the papal library. The two had a private encounter before they were joined by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on May 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May ... [...]
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Getting foreign aid right
By George Weigel on May 21, 2025 04:00 amRhetorical restraint is not prominent in Washington these days. Given the volatile personalities involved and the escalatory effects of social media, one hesitates to declare that the apogee of apoplexy has been reached — or [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 21, 2025
By CWR Staff on May 21, 2025 03:00 amReturn to Tradition – “The renewal of the Church begins at the altar — when we worship with awe, humility, and a heart open to mystery.”If God Is Lost, All Is Lost — Seek Him [...]
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Where Catholics marry in the United States: A look at the numbers
By J. J. Ziegler on May 20, 2025 09:48 pmAccording to data published in the most recent (2024) edition of The Official Catholic Directory, 107,051 marriages took place in the previous year in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States. The Directory classified 85,171 of them as [...]
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Catholic Fundamentalism and the Search for Truth
By Richard A. Spinello on May 20, 2025 05:30 amOn April 2, 2025, several progressive academics joined together in a symposium to celebrate the new book, Catholic Fundamentalism in America (Oxford University Press, 2025), by Father Mark S. Massa, SJ. (Two historians and an [...]
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The Hell of Overthinking
By Tod Worner on May 20, 2025 01:40 amI swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.—Fyodor Dostoevsky Years ago, in a pique of weight lifting enthusiasm, I stumbled across an intriguing interview in Muscle and Fitness [...]
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Trump says Vatican might host imminent Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks
By Catholic News Agency on May 19, 2025 05:25 pmIn this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) speaks to journalists at the Sirius Educational Center in Sochi on May 19, 2025, after a telephone conversation with U.S. Presiden... [...]
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Death and Life in the Nicene Creed
By Dr. Jared Ortiz on May 19, 2025 03:11 pmThe Nicene Creed invites us to die. Indeed, it requires it. This probably sounds rather dramatic, especially to those of us who recite the Creed each week without much serious concern. Readers of this website [...]
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The Christian Criticism of T.S. Eliot
By Edward Short on May 18, 2025 03:00 pmI For the young to understand the esteem in which T.S. Eliot (1882-1965) was held from the 1920s to the 1980s, they would need to exercise a degree of historical imagination that most of them [...]
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