A Catholic defense of trick-or-treating

A Catholic defense of trick-or-treating By Rachel Hoover Canto on Oct 30, 2025 08:00 pm Alas, it is that time of year again when certain suburban moms across America log onto the neighborhood Facebook group to request that Halloween trick-or-treating be moved to a different day so that their kids [...] Read in browser » Vatican to weigh in on Mary’s role in salvation with doctrine document on Nov. 4 By Catholic News Agency on Oct 30, 2025 02:14 pm Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, presides over a press conference on Friday, May 17, 2024, on the Vatican’s new document on Marian apparitions. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN News Vatican C... [...] Read in browser » John Henry Newman, Natural Religion, and the Mystery of Faith By Edward Short on Oct 30, 2025 04:00 am Editor’s note: On Monday, November 1st—All Saints’ Day—St. John Henry Newman will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV. This essay is published here in honor of that proclamation and the [...] Read in browser » Poland roiled by “partnership” legislation By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Oct 29, 2025 02:11 pm Polish domestic politics are currently roiled by the resurgence of an old issue: how to create domestic partnerships, while not calling them that. At an October 17 press conference in Warsaw, representatives of multiple parties [...] Read in browser » A timely anniversary By George Weigel on Oct 29, 2025 04:00 am Sixty years ago, on October 28, 1965, the Second Vatican Council adopted, and Pope Paul VI promulgated, the Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, known by the first words in the [...] Read in browser » Extra, extra! news and views for Wednesday, October 29, 2025 By CWR Staff on Oct 29, 2025 03:00 am Network of Terror – “The Near East, the cradle of Christianity, is now filled with governments and non-state actors overtly hostile to Christians.” Don’t Fall for the Islamic Republic’s Attempt at “Christian-Washing” (Providence) Smooth Flying, [...] Read in browser » The challenge of Saint Carlos: To love Jesus and know Him in the Eucharist By Paul Senz on Oct 28, 2025 10:40 pm In the age of mass media, particularly with the influence and ubiquity of the internet, there have been several incredibly high-profile canonizations of new saints in recent years. These include Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Saint [...] Read in browser » Saint Jude against the dreamers: Three warning signs of false teachers By Matthew Becklo on Oct 28, 2025 04:00 am Saint Jude, whose feast the Church celebrates on October 28, is known the world over for his patronage—that of hopeless causes—and for the Children’s Research Hospital named in his honor. But what some might not [...] Read in browser » Language, Memory, and Community By Kenneth Craycraft on Oct 27, 2025 07:05 pm “My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of wartime,” says Captain Charles Ryder in Evelyn Waugh’s novel, Brideshead Revisited. “These memories, which are my life—for we possess nothing certain [...] Read in browser » Napa report: 75% of states flunk religious freedom index By Catholic News Agency on Oct 27, 2025 02:30 pm null / Credit: Leigh Prather/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 27, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). About three-fourths of states scored less than 50% on Napa Legal Institute’s religious freedom index, which measures how well states safeguard r... [...] Read in browser » Tenth Circuit ruling in CO school case is a major setback for religious freedom By Charles J. Russo on Oct 27, 2025 01:59 pm The September 30th ruling, St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton v. Roy, is a major setback for religious freedom. In the most far-reaching part of its order, the Tenth Circuit Court unanimously ruled that two Catholic [...] Read in browser » Charity, liberty, and the contested history of the American story By Dr. Christopher Shannon on Oct 26, 2025 09:51 pm In my previous essay, I proposed the idea of a “1531 Project” as a possible Catholic intervention into the contemporary culture wars over how properly to tell the story of American history. In this essay, [...] Read in browser » Pope Leo: Don’t let tension between tradition, novelty become ‘harmful polarizations’ By Catholic News Agency on Oct 26, 2025 03:46 pm Vatican City, Oct 26, 2025 / 08:10 am Pope Leo XIV said at a Mass on Sunday that no one in the Church “should impose his or her own ideas” and asked that tensions between [...] Read in browser » Michael O’Brien’s new novel about the future focuses on hope, trust, Jesus Christ By Greg Maillet on Oct 26, 2025 02:19 pm Are we living in apocalyptic times? No one can answer this question definitively, though many quarters of both society and the Church suggest responses. Perhaps the more important question is the perpetual issue: How shall [...] Read in browser » PHOTOS: Cardinal Burke celebrates Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica By Catholic News Agency on Oct 25, 2025 06:00 pm Pilgrims participate in a Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, celebrated by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke at the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter, the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City,... [...] Read in browser » Finding the heart and place of prayer By Carl E. Olson on Oct 25, 2025 11:00 am Readings: • Sir 35:12-14, 16-18 • Psa 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23 • 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18 • Lk 18:9-14 Prayer is one of those mysterious actions that everyone knows about—how many people can honestly say [...] Read in browser » Ministry of Mercy: A review of Triumph Over Evil: Battle of the Exorcists By Nick Olszyk on Oct 24, 2025 10:30 pm Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Deliverance ministry is undergoing a revival in the early 21st century, both within the Church and the wider culture. When I was growing up in the late 1990s, [...] Read in browser » Geneva Consensus Declaration marks 5 years challenging international abortion “rights” By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Oct 24, 2025 07:17 pm Marking five years since the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD) first challenged international efforts to enshrine abortion as a “human right,” Washington hosted a high-level speakers program and luncheon on October 22 that underscored renewed American [...] Read in browser » Consultant to European bishops: Attacks on places of worship are ‘pandemic’ By Catholic News Agency on Oct 24, 2025 01:38 pm Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 / 08:00 am The rise in violence and attacks against places of worship and believers, traditionally associated with regions of conflict, has seen a worrying upturn in recent years in [...] Read in browser »