A timely and helpful introduction to St. Dominic’s life and mission
By Casey Chalk on Nov 07, 2025 03:00 amAccording to a 2016 directory published by Fr. José A. Martinez, the Dominicans can claim 83 canonized saints, 287 blessed, 25 venerable, and 119 servants of God in the liturgical calendar or in the files [...]
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Election Day Diary
By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Nov 06, 2025 05:01 pmIn my usual—well, slightly unkempt—priestly black clothing and white tab collar, I arrived at the voting station this morning, ready to do my civic duty. As I walked in, an older man—maybe my age or [...]
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The Emergence of the Post-Liberal Catholic Priest
By Kenneth Craycraft on Nov 06, 2025 03:45 pmA major recent survey suggests that a new generation of Catholic priests is breaking free of the restrictive political labels of “conservative” and “liberal,” recognizing that the claims of our Faith transcend such increasingly anachronistic branding. [...]
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Growing in maturity with the Church Fathers: An interview with Fr. John Gavin, S.J.
By Sean Salai on Nov 06, 2025 04:19 amFather John Gavin, S.J., is an associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He recently spoke with the Catholic World Report about his new book Growing into God: [...]
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Catholicism and the problem of political extremism
By James Kalb on Nov 06, 2025 03:00 amModern politics go to extremes. There are a variety of reasons for that. One is that modern thought likes to draw far-reaching conclusions from a few simple principles. In the natural sciences, where exact verification [...]
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2 Nigerian minor seminarians released months after kidnapping, 1 killed in captivity
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 05, 2025 02:04 pmOn Nov. 4, 2025, the Catholic Diocese of Auchi in Nigeria announced the release of two seminarians who were abducted in July during an armed attack on Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in Ivianokpodi while confirming the death of a third vict... [...]
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Newman and the new ultramontanism
By George Weigel on Nov 05, 2025 04:00 amThe All Saints Day proclamation of St. John Henry Newman as a Doctor of the Church was entirely welcome, if not without a certain irony. First, the good news. Newman was one of the most [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, November 5, 2025
By CWR Staff on Nov 05, 2025 03:00 amThe Process of Purgation – “Those in Purgatory are our brethren and sisters, all belonging to the larger and mystical Body of Christ. They demand our prayers. Indeed, we are linked to them—far more than [...]
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Saint Charles Borromeo: Son of the Church and a true reformer
By Dawn Beutner on Nov 05, 2025 12:00 amWhen Saint Charles Borromeo was born in 1538, Protestant teachings had already swept all over Europe. Wars had erupted between Catholics and Protestants in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands over the [...]
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The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 04, 2025 04:46 pmThe Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [..]
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Vatican nixes use of ‘Co-Redemptrix,’ ‘Mediatrix’ as titles for Mary
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 04, 2025 11:25 amCardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, prays before an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Child during the rosary vigil for Pope Francis at the Vatican on Feb. 28, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñe... [...]
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Italian Basilica of St. Benedict reopens 9 years after it was destroyed by earthquake
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 03, 2025 02:20 pmRome Newsroom, Nov 3, 2025 / 10:00 am The Basilica of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy, reopened for worship this weekend after a four-year project to rebuild the 13th-century edifice leveled by an earthquake in [...]
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America’s Most Fruitful Dioceses: A Look at the Numbers
By J. J. Ziegler on Nov 03, 2025 11:00 amThe median Latin-rite diocese in the United States has one infant baptism per year for every 113 Catholics, one non-infant reception into the Church per year for every 413 Catholics, one wedding per year for [...]
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Peter Kreeft’s Joyful Apologia
By David Paul Deavel on Nov 03, 2025 04:00 amFor Catholics, the end of October marked the beginning of Hallowtide—All Hallows’ Eve, or Halloween, All Hallows (All Saints), and All Souls. For Protestant Christians who have maintained some connection with the first Protestants, October [...]
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Catholic leader: Religious sects, terrorist groups are “two wolves “preying on African youths
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Nov 02, 2025 07:57 pmNelson Moda, the head of the Community of Sant’Egidio in Mozambique and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Mozambique, has described religious sects and terrorist groups as “the two wolves” that prey on the [...]
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Pope Leo XIV: Death is ‘a hope for the future’
By Catholic News Agency on Nov 02, 2025 03:38 pmRome, Italy, Nov 2, 2025 / 12:40 pm Celebrating Mass for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed at Rome’s Verano Cemetery, Pope Leo XIV invited Catholics to contemplate death “not so much as a [...]
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Litany of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Nov 01, 2025 09:13 pmWith grateful hearts, let us invoke the intercession of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Doctor of the Church: Ever-obedient to the voice of conscience, “the aboriginal vicar of Christ,” pray for us. Schooled in the [...]
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A Eucharistic Way of Life
By Fr. Robert B. Imbelli on Nov 01, 2025 09:08 pmSome fifty years ago, I spent a five-day retreat on a small island off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut. On each day of the retreat, I concentrated my meditation upon a chapter of Saint Paul’s [...]
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All Souls Days and our mortal end
By Carl E. Olson on Nov 01, 2025 08:00 pmReadings: • Wis 3:1-9 • Psa 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 • Rom 6:3-9 • Jn 6:37-40 “I’ve always had a hard time explaining purgatory,” the man said. “Didn’t the Second Vatican Council say that Catholics [...]
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To Trace All Souls Day
By Brian Van Hove, S.J. on Nov 01, 2025 06:00 pmAs Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger once said so well, one major difference between Protestants and Catholics is that Catholics pray for the dead: “My view is that if Purgatory did not exist, we should have to [...]
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The Solemnity of All Saints and the pursuit of holiness
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Nov 01, 2025 04:00 amSeveral years ago I was having a mild altercation with one of my high school students. He ended his presentation with this thought: “The reason I hate Catholic school is that you priests and nuns [...]
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Why is a religious sister writing vampire novels? An interview with Sr. Allison Regina Gliot, FSP
By Paul Senz on Oct 31, 2025 08:15 pmA new novel about a young woman and a mysterious vampire explores the question: Is any soul beyond saving? In The Curse He Chose, by Sr. Allison Regina Gliot, FSP, God’s boundless mercy is on full [...]
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UPDATE: : Trump says he will designate Nigeria ‘country of particular concern’
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 31, 2025 03:01 pmWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 31, 2025 / 17:30 pm President Donald Trump said he is designating Nigeria a “country of particular concern.” In a social media post Oct. 31, Trump said, “Christianity is facing an [...]
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The Season of the Dead: The origins and practice of Allhallowtide
By Thomas L. McDonald on Oct 31, 2025 11:00 amWe’ve grown to think of our American experience of Halloween—with its focus on horror themes, costumes, candy, and decorations—as normative. In fact, it’s a product of the 20th-century media-saturated, consumer-oriented appropriation of Catholic feasts for [...]
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