The Scandalous Case of Cardinal Cupich and Senator Durbin
By Jayd Henricks on Sep 20, 2025 04:00 pmLast week, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced that it will be honoring Senator Durbin with a lifetime achievement award. Senator Durbin is a long-time Democratic United States Senator from Illinois who served in leadership for [...]
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Parables, Puzzlement, and Prudence
By Carl E. Olson on Sep 20, 2025 04:00 amReadings: • Am 8:4-7 • Ps 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8 • 1 Tm 2:1-8 • Lk 16:1-13 How difficult is the parable of the dishonest steward heard in today’s Gospel reading? “Of all of Jesus’ parables,” [...]
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The martyrs of Korea and their children
By Dawn Beutner on Sep 20, 2025 04:00 amUnlike every other country in the history of the world, the Catholic Faith came to Korea through the invitation of the laity rather than through missionaries and priests. And many of those brave Korean lay [...]
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Anti-assisted-suicide group says suicide laws expanding throughout U.S. in 2025
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 19, 2025 06:31 pmnull / Credit: nito/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 19, 2025 / 14:31 pm (CNA). This week the Patients Rights Action Fund, which works to “end the dangerous and discriminatory public policy of assisted suicide,” provided an update on... [...]
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The challenge of being Catholic in the world’s largest Muslim country
By R. Cavanaugh on Sep 19, 2025 06:10 pmIndonesia stays somewhat under the international radar, considering it has the world’s fourth-largest population and the largest of any Muslim-majority nation. About 87% of its people adhere to Islam (over 240 million), but one-tenth of [...]
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New film depicts the last days and selfless death of St. Maximilian Kolbe
By Filip Mazurczak on Sep 25, 2025 08:00 pmThe horrors of twentieth-century totalitarianism caused many to ask the ancient question of how a loving God could allow His children to suffer. Writer and director Anthony D’Ambrosio’s new film, Triumph of the Heart, depicts [...]
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Bishop Bätzing: German bishops not on ‘confrontational course with Rome’
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 25, 2025 02:03 pmThe chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, defended his country’s controversial guidelines on same-sex blessings this week, asserting that there was no contradiction with Vatican teaching, despite Pope Leo XIV’s recent... [...]
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Bau, Artist at War: A captivating story of self-sacrifice for strangers
By Susan Ciancio on Sep 25, 2025 12:35 pmI am not a big fan of films. Give me a sports event or a good TV show, and I am happy. But from the moment I saw the previews for Bau, Artist at War, [...]
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Do Animals Go to Heaven?
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Sep 25, 2025 04:00 amNo theologian likes being asked about the mortal fate of beloved pets, as it’s sure to hurt feelings. With the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, approaching October 4th, I [...]
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Augustine and defaulting shepherds
By George Weigel on Sep 24, 2025 04:45 pmFor two weeks every year, the Church ponders St. Augustine’s lengthy sermon On Pastors in the Liturgy of the Hours. It cannot make easy reading for those charged with the cura animarum, the “care of [...]
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Jihadist groups create ‘corridor of violence’ targeting Christians in Sahel
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Sep 24, 2025 05:29 amYaoundé, Cameroon — Ryan Brown, the CEO of Open Doors US, paints a grim picture of jihadist violence in the Sahel, saying that jihadist groups have “a regional corridor of violence” targeting religious minorities. Mr. Brown was [...]
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Catholics and gender ideology
By George Weigel on Sep 24, 2025 04:00 amIn this raw, emotionally overwrought moment in our public life, few topics generate more passion than gender ideology and the associated practice of gender “transition.” Several Catholic leaders have tried to address the ideology and [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, September 24, 2025
By CWR Staff on Sep 24, 2025 03:01 amThe Palantiri and Orcs – “Within the theological framework Tolkien utilized, an important, though oft-overlooked aspect of the trilogy is its application to contemporary geopolitical issues, particularly those stemming from modern technology.” Tolkien, Technology, and [...]
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A Tale of Two Bishops
By Carl E. Olson on Sep 23, 2025 11:00 pmEditor’s note: This CWR editorial was posted originally on February 9, 2015, not long after Blase Cupich was named Archbishop of Chicago after some time spent as bishop of Spokane, WA. It is reposted here [...]
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Cardinal Cupich defends decision to honor pro-abortion senator at immigration fundraiser
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 23, 2025 06:52 pmCardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 23, 2025 / 16:52 pm (CNA). Chicago archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich is defending his decision to honor pro-abortion Illinois Democrat Sen. Richard Durb... [...]
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Erika Kirk and the Beatitudes
By John Echaniz on Sep 23, 2025 11:40 amThe grace of God sends us the words we need to hear sometimes, and such was the case with me when I stumbled across this sentence in Fr. Philippe’s The Eight Doors of the Kingdom: [...]
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A mixed victory for Christian parents over educators in contentious MI case
By Charles J. Russo on Sep 22, 2025 10:20 pmOn September 18, 2025, a federal trial court judge in Michigan allowed a parental claim to proceed against educators who followed a board policy under which they “actively concealed” their actions in changing the gender [...]
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Study: ‘Traditional liturgical experiences predict stronger belief in the Real Presence’
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 22, 2025 12:00 pmThe Eucharist is displayed in a monstrance in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City before a Eucharistic procession on Oct. 15, 2024. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A recent study found that... [...]
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The 1531 Project: A distinct and Catholic view of American history
By Dr. Christopher Shannon on Sep 22, 2025 04:00 amHenry Ford once declared, “History is Bunk.” Personal preferences aside, Ford’s blunt dismissal of the past reflects a still-dominant bias toward the future deeply rooted in America’s self-understanding as a nation of progress. A steep [...]
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On the good news given us by St. Matthew
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Sep 21, 2025 10:00 pmToday, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Matthew, author of the first Gospel. In the New Testament, he has two names, Levi and Matthew. It was not uncommon for Jews of the first century [...]
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