Sorry Bishop Barron....we've decided to boycott you

 

Sorry Bishop Barron....we've decided to boycott you because of your keeping company with the likes of Tucker Carlson and a person called DJT and his prayer group. We used to trust you to handle God's Word but now we know you are MAGA. Why did it take you so long to take a public position on Minneapolis/St. Paul? We cannot abide with you. We loved your message and used to consider you one of our most trust worthy teachers/preachers.

5 ways to solemnly celebrate Good Friday

5 ways to solemnly celebrate Good Friday As the Church mourns, Catholics are also called to solemnly observe this holy day. PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV celebrates the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the Vatican Departing from Pope Francis’ custom of celebrating the liturgy in prisons or migrant centers, Leo celebrated the rite in the cathedral of Rome and washed the feet of 12 priests of the Diocese of Rome. Bishop Barron, Father Mike Schmitz to speak at Trump event rededicating U.S. to God Catholic speakers for the May 17 event on the National Mall include Bishop Robert Barron, Father Mike Schmitz, and actor Jonathan Roumie. Cardinal Timothy Dolan is set to offer a video address. Teens sidestep parental notification through telehealth abortion, study shows Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.

California to pay $4.5 million to Catholic law firm after losing lawsuit over gender secrecy rules The state committed “litigation intransigence” in fighting a lawsuit over policies that blocked parents from learning about their children’s transgender identities, a federal judge ruled.

Did Jesus have to suffer to save us?

To Dwell in the Side of Christ

By Matthew Becklo on Apr 03, 2026 04:00 am
In his Introduction to the Devout Life, Saint Francis de Sales recounts the following story about the fourteenth-century saint Elzear of Sabran: When the blessed Elzear, Count of the Provence of Arian, had been long separated [...]
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Did Jesus have to suffer to save us?

By David Paul Deavel on Apr 03, 2026 04:00 am
Late in his life, St. John Henry Newman declined an offer from a Protestant to explain the Atonement fully. He replied that the Atonement is a theological mystery, far too complicated to be reduced to [...]
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Will Beauty Save the World?

By Joshua Hren on Apr 02, 2026 05:02 pm
Dostoevsky never said “Beauty will save the world”—not without circling the catch phrase with serious qualifications, not without putting the attractive prospect in the form of a question. I don’t care how many times the [...]
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Supreme Court upholds Christian counselor’s right to provide faith-based care

By Charles J. Russo on Apr 02, 2026 04:08 pm
On March 31, 2026, in Chiles v. Salazar (a case I previously wrote about here), the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a licensed Christian therapist because a Colorado law infringed on her free speech rights by [...]
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Holy Thursday, conversion, and “the death of His saints”

By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Apr 02, 2026 11:39 am
This year marks 29 years that I’ve been a Catholic. In fact, today marks the anniversary of my reception into the Church. Sort of. Let me explain. As readers probably know, many people become Catholic [...]
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The Easter Triduum and Three Essentials

By Carl E. Olson on Apr 02, 2026 04:00 am
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son [...]
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Pope Leo on the dignity and mission of the laity: They are the body of Christ

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú on Apr 01, 2026 07:09 pm
The pope’s reflection at the general audience was inspired by the Second Vatican Council’s dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium. [...]
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Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part Two

By Matthew Walz on Apr 01, 2026 04:00 pm
Editor’s note: You can read Part One of this essay here. IV The best way to describe how matrimony and the family animate Leo’s magisterial approach to the social question is to speak of their [...]
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Via Crucis, 2026

By George Weigel on Apr 01, 2026 04:00 am
The Way of the Cross—and the third, seventh, and ninth stations in particular—has been an especially appropriate Lenten devotion this year. Every day, it seems, some new craziness erupts in the world, the country, or [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, April 1, 2026

By CWR Staff on Apr 01, 2026 03:00 am
In Holy Week, Life’s Indignities Reveal Our Eternal Dignity (National Catholic Register): “In the frailty of old age and the reversals of family life, the cross of Jesus Christ comes into focus as the true [...]
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Opinion: Does God hear the prayers of warmongers?

By Marcus Peter on Mar 31, 2026 05:47 pm
Many are abuzz about Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily. In order to provide some context, let’s consider what Pete Hegseth prayed at the Pentagon last Wednesday, March 25th. In leading a Pentagon Christian service, [...]
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A Mary who is detached and beyond our grasp

By Nick Olszyk on Mar 31, 2026 04:00 pm
Distribution Service: Fox Nation Reel Rating: 2 out of 5 reels Martin Scorsese is not only one of the greatest film directors in history but also has a clear affinity for complex and profound spiritual [...]
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Palm Sunday attack in Nigeria’s Jos Archdiocese leaves 11 dead, curfew imposed

By ACI Africa on Mar 30, 2026 12:36 pm
A deadly attack has left at least 11 people dead and several others injured following an attack by suspected gunmen in Gari Ya Waye community, Angwan Rukuba, served by Nigeria’s Archdiocese of Jos. [...]
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Welcome home! A record number of converts to enter the Church this Easter

By Kathy Schiffer on Mar 30, 2026 12:08 pm
The numbers are in, and they are staggering. Across the United States and around the world, the number of converts entering the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil is at record highs. Shane Schaetzel, writing [...]
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Holy Week in Song and Verse

By Kenneth Craycraft on Mar 30, 2026 12:00 pm
When I was confirmed in the Church during graduate school, I would not have said, as many other converts do, that my conversion was initiated by the beauty of Catholic art and music. To be [...]
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Bishop William Murphy Remembered

By George Weigel on Mar 30, 2026 04:00 am
William Francis Murphy, the emeritus bishop of Rockville Centre who died on March 26 at age 85, was not a household name in American Catholicism. He did, however, have a considerable impact on both the [...]
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The Paschal Mystery: Our Exodus from Death to Life

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Mar 29, 2026 08:00 pm
Do you feel stuck in the spiritual life, like something is holding you back? Did Lent fall short of bringing about deeper conversion? Holy Week, as the culmination of Lent, seeks to resolve these dangling [...]
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Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part One

By Matthew Walz on Mar 29, 2026 05:58 pm
Editor’s note: The following piece is the first part of a two-part essay.  I In 1846, John Henry Newman traveled to Rome to see if he could arrange to undertake seminary studies for the Catholic priesthood. [...]
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Africa’s second exodus

By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Mar 28, 2026 02:00 pm
When reports confirmed that thousands of young Africans had been lured into fighting for Russia in its war on Ukraine, the world reacted with shock and outrage. For Fr. Augustine Anwuchie, however, it was not [...]
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Read Pope Leo XIV’s homily to Catholics at Monaco’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

By Pope Leo XIV on Mar 28, 2026 01:52 pm
The Holy Father arrived in Monaco as part of a one-day visit on March 28. [...]
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Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions

By Carl E. Olson on Mar 28, 2026 11:00 am
Readings:  • Mt. 21:1-11 • Isa. 50:4-7 • Psa. 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil. 2:6-11 • Mt. 26:14-27:66 When hearing a passage as dramatic as today’s Gospel, what do you focus on? What catches [...]
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A Question of Perspective: Who Gets Fired and Why?

By Dr. Randall B. Smith on Mar 27, 2026 11:36 pm
It has been ranked “as among the most significant developments in moral theology in the past fifty years.” This was how the late Fr. Richard McCormick described Catholic University of America’s decision in 1988 to [...]
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Opinion: A Cautious Case for the Iran War

By Philip Primeau on Mar 27, 2026 04:48 pm
The present war with Iran has been negatively appraised by many Catholics. Some of the arguments advanced by these critics are of poor quality, characterized by irrational suspicion and animus, but others are serious and respectable. As a [...]
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