Do “Right” and “Left” Belong in the Catholic Church?
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Oct 09, 2025 04:30 amThe partisan division that runs deep in America has recently taken a violent turn. Political affiliations manifest competing visions for the country’s future, and increasingly, for human life itself. Is freedom absolute in a way [...]
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The tender heart and Christlike struggles of Saint John Henry Newman
By Dawn Beutner on Oct 09, 2025 04:00 amEver since Pope Leo XIV announced his plans to declare Saint John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church on November 1, Catholic writers have been gushing in their admiration of this nineteenth-century English saint. [...]
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Pondering the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas on immigration
By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Oct 08, 2025 08:10 pmLeo XIII became pope in February 1878. Within 18 months of his election, he issued his encyclical Aeterni Patris, recommending St. Thomas Aquinas as bearing “golden wisdom” and promoting the renewal of Thomistic studies as [...]
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The problem(s) with “LGBTQ Catholic”
By George Weigel on Oct 08, 2025 04:00 amThe late Father Richard John Neuhaus had a love/hate relationship with the New York Times. Richard was a passionate partisan of New York City, which he sometimes described as a preview of the New Jerusalem, but [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, October 8, 2025
By CWR Staff on Oct 08, 2025 03:00 amPeter Kreeft, the Anomaly – “Kreeft’s gift isn’t just in philosophy — it’s in making the hardest parts of faith feel accessible.” On the Occasion of a Favorite Professor Turning the Pen on Himself (New [...]
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Trust, tribalism, and the Church
By James Kalb on Oct 07, 2025 10:52 pmRecent trends in America point toward either tribalism or social disintegration. There is no neat solution to the problem. Still, the Church will be in a position to help mitigate it—not directly, through social engagement [...]
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A society that promotes abortion will never find true peace
By Susan Ciancio on Oct 07, 2025 10:28 pmOn my way to the store last week, I found myself behind an SUV that had several stickers on its windows. The first that caught my eye was one that boasted “Happy Heathen.” When I [...]
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On the (real) archbishop of Canterbury and John Henry Newman
By Joanna Bogle on Oct 07, 2025 03:00 amWhat is the answer to the question, “Who is the Archbishop of Canterbury?” It is “John Wilson”. He is also the Archbishop of Ramsgate, Rochester, Croydon, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells, Tooting Bec, Wallington, and Wimbledon, along [...]
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Against the Machine is a penetrating critique of the tech-heavy culture of illusions
By Francis X. Maier on Oct 06, 2025 05:48 pmI’ll cut right to the chase: Paul Kingsnorth is among the three or four best writers I have encountered in the last decade. And his latest book, Against the Machine, published late last month, is [...]
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Pope Leo XIV allows outside banks to manage Holy See investments
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 06, 2025 10:35 amPope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile at the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for Mass on Pentecost Sunday on June 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 6, 2025 / 09:35 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has permitted the Holy See’s ... [...]
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How should Catholics think about Islam?
By David Paul Deavel on Oct 06, 2025 05:44 amWhat does the Catholic Church believe about Islam and about Muslims? This question flares up periodically on the internet and sometimes in real life. Clearly, Muslims reject Jesus and are not a part of the [...]
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Recent Vatican concert embraces infantile claptrap and correlationism
By Tracey Rowland on Oct 05, 2025 08:36 pmLast week, my inbox was inundated with people writing about the recent concert in St. Peter’s Square. For those who missed it, the “Grace for the World” concert was held on September 13th, and it [...]
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For first time in U.S., Catholics will be able to venerate the habit of Padre Pio
By Catholic News Agency on Oct 05, 2025 03:39 pmCNA Staff, Oct 5, 2025 / 06:00 am For the first time in the United States, Catholics will have the opportunity to venerate the full-size habit worn by St. Pio of Pietrelcina, also known as [...]
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From Satanist priest to canonized saint: The remarkable redemption of Bartolo Longo
By Dawn Beutner on Oct 04, 2025 10:00 pm“Satanic priest becomes canonized saint” sounds like a headline from a trashy tabloid, but on October 19, 2025, it will be true. Since his beatification in 1980, the story of Bartolo Longo’s life has both [...]
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A sculpture of love, not of rage
By Kathy Schiffer on Oct 04, 2025 03:40 pm
“I describe my sculptures as being visual prayers,” says Canadian
sculptor Timothy Schmalz. A case in point is the artist’s famous
“Homeless Jesus,” which depicts Jesus asleep on a park bench, his
nail-scarred feet sticking [...]
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A faith in constant need of increase
By Carl E. Olson on Oct 04, 2025 12:30 pmReadings: • Hab 1:2-3; 2:2-4 • Psa 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 • 2 Tim 1:6-8, 13-14 • Lk 17:5-10 “Lord, I would seek you, calling upon you—and calling upon you is an act of believing in [...]
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Recovering the real St. Francis of Assisi
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on Oct 03, 2025 08:00 pmRenowned worldwide for his radical poverty and profound humility, St. Francis of Assisi is among the most famous of God’s saints. It is no wonder, then, that, like his master Jesus of Nazareth, Francis has [...]
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