Contemplative Prayer and Hope for America
By Anthony Lilles on Sep 18, 2025 05:49 pmIn the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, how do we answer the violence that grips America’s public square? This latest social horror is part of a disturbing pattern of other assassinations, massacres, and [...]
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Pope Leo XIV signals potential shift on China, talks Trump and Gaza
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 18, 2025 01:08 pmPope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for his Sunday Angelus in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 14, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 18, 2025 / 10:08 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV, in his first interview since his election,... [...]
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On Joseph of Cupertino, the embarrassing (and levitating) Saint
By Dawn Beutner on Sep 18, 2025 04:00 amHis classmates called him “the Gaper,” an ugly nickname to describe his habit of staring with his mouth wide open. But today he is known as Saint Joseph of Cupertino, or, as the Italians say, [...]
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Nigeria bishops’ conference president: Country now full of ‘fear, flight, and funerals’
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 17, 2025 04:30 pmNigeria is “sinking in many fronts,” the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has said. / Credit: Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria ACI Africa, Sep 17, 2025 / 14:10 pm (CNA). Nigeria is “sink... [...]
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Jacob’s Story: The Profound Impact of Love
By Susan Ciancio on Sep 17, 2025 04:15 pmIn 1981, a little boy was born several weeks early, enduring a broken clavicle during the birthing process. His young parents, both just 22, soon came to see that the early birth was a blessing. [...]
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A heroic example
By George Weigel on Sep 17, 2025 04:00 amAmerica needs the example of a real hero: a dedicated hero who enhances natural talents by hard work and takes pride in a craft; an unselfish hero who places team above self; a modest hero [...]
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On the holy life and remarkable intellect of Saint Robert Bellarmine
By Dawn Beutner on Sep 17, 2025 03:00 amOn September 17, 1621, the Cardinal-priest Robert Bellarmine died in Rome. Why did Pope Pius XI declare him a saint in 1930? And why did the same pope declare him a Doctor of the Church [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, September 17, 2025
By CWR Staff on Sep 17, 2025 03:00 amPrayer and the Peace of Christ Today – “The Catholic tradition proposes that the only adequate answer to the social horror we are witnessing is the peace of Christ, and the saints and martyrs of [...]
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Will Charlie Kirk’s death help galvanize the pro-life movement?
By Monica Seeley on Sep 16, 2025 04:33 pmI looked up from my work to see a text from one of my son’s schoolmates: “Hi Mrs. Seeley, a couple of us have decided to go to the clinic and pray today just because [...]
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Gov. Cox: Transgender partner of alleged Charlie Kirk killer cooperating with authorities
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 15, 2025 09:01 pmTyler Robinson, 22, (pictured on Sept. 12, 2025) the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk, conservative Christian political activist. / Credit: Handout/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 15, 2025 / 18:01 pm (CNA). Utah Gov. Spencer Cox conf... [...]
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For and Against: Catholics Take Sides on Tariffs
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Sep 15, 2025 05:38 pmTariffs, duties imposed on imported goods, have been causing global uncertainty in recent months, with President Trump employing them periodically. Courts have even recently weighed in to consider their constitutionality. Catholics, too, have been evaluating [...]
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On the relevance and meaning of the old Vesting Prayers
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Sep 15, 2025 04:04 pmAmong his (temporarily?) abandoned liturgical instructions that generated a firestorm of controversy recently, Charlotte Bishop Michael Martin wanted to suppress the pre-Vatican II practice of praying vesting prayers while putting on vestments for Mass. Upon [...]
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Western Civilization under Attack: Part Two
By Paul Seaton on Sep 15, 2025 04:32 amWestern civilization, Islam, and secular elites formed the triangle that I began to develop in the first installment of this alarum. My thesis is that this precious thing, Western civilization, to which we all owe [...]
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‘No one can silence their voice’: Pope Leo XIV honors modern martyrs at ecumenical service
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 14, 2025 02:38 pmPope Leo XIV presides over an ecumenical commemoration of the martyrs and witnesses of faith of the 21st century at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on September 14, 2025. / Elias Turl Vatican City, Sep 14, 2025 / 12:38 pm (CNA). P... [..]
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The miraculous crucifix of San Marcello and hope in the face of death
By Father Seán Connolly on Sep 14, 2025 04:00 amThe paradox at the heart of Christianity is the Cross. Through Christ’s sacrifice, this instrument of death has become the source of lasting life. Christ hung upon the Cross not just as a “living victim” [...]
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The Holy Cross is an invitation to faith, to life, to love
By Carl E. Olson on Sep 13, 2025 02:00 pmOn the Readings for Saturday, September 14th, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross [...]
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Ninth Circuit Court rules Christian mother in Oregon be allowed to adopt siblings
By Charles J. Russo on Sep 13, 2025 01:07 amAfter two years, the Ninth Circuit Court finally put the welfare of two siblings who were in foster care ahead of gender ideology. Reversing an earlier order to the contrary, the court found that because [...]
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Conversions and Receptions into the Church: A Look at the Numbers
By J. J. Ziegler on Sep 12, 2025 09:49 pmIn 1937, Fr. Edward Betowski, a professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York, published Spurs to Conversion, a compilation of weekly reflections encouraging priests to cultivate a missionary spirit in themselves and in their parishioners. Lamenting [...]
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Pew survey: 8 out of 10 U.S. Catholics view Pope Leo XIV favorably
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 12, 2025 05:00 pmPope Leo waves to the crowds in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 / 14:56 pm (CNA). A new report from a Pew Research Center survey finds that 8 out of 10 American Catholics view Pope Leo XIV fa... [...]
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Conservative Bishops, Liberal Results
By James Hitchcock on Sep 11, 2025 11:31 pmEditor’s note: This article is the first in a new feature category titled “From the Archives,” which will, as the name indicates, be pieces from CWR’s extensive archives. It seems fitting that this first essay, [...]
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Opinion: Finis Disputationis
By Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. on Sep 11, 2025 06:03 pmAs I write this, it has been 24 hours since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a college campus event centered on free speech and debate. Gunned down on a [...]
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Pew Research surveys role of religion in how Americans vote
By Catholic News Agency on Sep 11, 2025 04:00 pmnull / Credit: roibu/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 11, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A new Pew Research Center study found that religion does not play a large role in how most Americans vote in U.S. elections. The research was condu... [...]
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Let’s make America serious again
By George Weigel on Sep 11, 2025 12:00 amHaving spent most of July and August off the grid while teaching in Poland and vacationing in Canada, I missed a lot of the Great Cracker Barrel Logo Fracas. But from what little I have [...]
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On the urgent need to recognize and reject religious relativism
By Larry Chapp on Sep 10, 2025 08:07 pmWay back in olden times, when I was still a professor of theology, one of the most ubiquitous attitudes amongst the students was that it does not matter which religion one practiced since “all religions [...]
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