Jesus Christ is the new and everlasting Temple

On Nick Fuentes and the rise of the woke right By Marcus Peter on Nov 14, 2025 04:00 am The rise of Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the growing faction known as the “woke right” is one of the strangest spectacles in contemporary political life. What began as a reaction against the [...] Read in browser » U.S. bishops pass directive forbidding transgender surgeries at Catholic hospitals By Catholic News Agency on Nov 13, 2025 02:20 pm Mercy Health Perrysburg Hospital in Perrysburg, Ohio. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Nov 13, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA). Catholic hospitals in the United States are explicitly forbidden from carrying out transgender-related surgeries on indi... [...] Read in browser » Saint Frances Cabrini: Victim or Victor? By Dawn Beutner on Nov 13, 2025 04:35 am I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know him or have forgotten Him. — Quotation popularly attributed to Saint Frances Cabrini What [...] Read in browser » Catholicism and the American Founding: A further response to “The Great American Story” By Dr. Christopher Shannon on Nov 13, 2025 04:00 am “No taxation without representation!” Every American school boy and girl learns this as the rallying cry that inaugurated the sequence of events that led to the birth of the United States of America. In this [...] Read in browser » Preparing for Death: A Brief Imaginative Pilgrimage By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Nov 13, 2025 04:00 am November, the month of the dead, calls us to remember our own death and to prepare for eternal life. We may be tempted to think of this preparation in minimalist terms—avoiding mortal sin and fulfilling [...] Read in browser » Sportsmanship and the season of our discontents By George Weigel on Nov 12, 2025 04:00 am In early October, a dinner conversation with an old friend turned to why we both find the National Football League virtually unwatchable these days: the constant penalties (often elongated into absurdly lengthy reviews); incessant injuries [...] Read in browser » Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, November 12, 2025 By CWR Staff on Nov 12, 2025 03:00 am The DDF’s Strange Fixation – “It is disturbing that a few online trolls could prompt an official statement from a Vatican dicastery— a statement that dismays and offends so many loyal, faithful Catholics …” The [...] Read in browser » On the Taliban and the dehumanizing “regulations” of radical Islam By Luma Simms on Nov 11, 2025 04:49 pm The Taliban, who took control of Kabul and overthrew the government of Afghanistan in August 2021, have set up a ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice. In August 2023, they [...] Read in browser » U.S. bishops elect Archbishop Paul S. Coakley as USCCB president By Catholic News Agency on Nov 11, 2025 12:42 pm Baltimore, Maryland, Nov 11, 2025 / 12:15 pm Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City was elected to serve as the next president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in a secret ballot [...] Read in browser » Opinion: Don’t blame Descartes—the dualism runs deep By Matthew Becklo on Nov 10, 2025 07:50 pm On November 10, 1619, during a Saint Martin’s Eve celebration in Germany, a twenty-three-year-old French soldier slipped into a small room with a stove to do some thinking—and it changed the course of history. Philosophy, [...] Read in browser » Newman on the Sacred Liturgy, Part One By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Nov 10, 2025 06:37 pm Editor’s note: The following address was delivered to the Theology Department of the University of Dallas on November 5, 2025, and is posted here in two parts. When thinking of John Henry Newman, one’s thoughts [...] Read in browser » Bangladesh police arrest suspect in bomb attacks on Catholic sites By Catholic News Agency on Nov 10, 2025 03:09 pm The main gate of Holy Rosary Church in Dhaka, Bangladesh, shows damage after two homemade bomb explosions on Oct. 8, 2025. / Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov 10, 2025 / 09:09 am (CNA). Dhaka police have arrested a 28-year-ol... [...] Read in browser » Parish-based initiative by the USCCB connects mothers with key resources By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Nov 10, 2025 01:52 pm Walking with Moms in Need is a nationwide, parish-based initiative by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to connect pregnant and parenting mothers with resources they need to address their challenges. Launched in 2020, [...] Read in browser » South Sudan bishop: Warring factors are “stealing peace and stealing resources” By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Nov 09, 2025 08:40 pm Bishop Christian Carlassare of Benitu in South Sudan has decried the escalating war in Sudan, particularly the carnage in El Fasher, describing it as “a tragedy.” The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), commanded by General [...] Read in browser » Pope Leo XIV: Build the Church on the solid foundations of Christ, not on worldly criteria By Catholic News Agency on Nov 09, 2025 03:42 pm Rome, Italy, Nov 9, 2025 / 06:40 am At the Basilica of St. John Lateran on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV urged Christians to build the Church on “solid foundations” rooted in Christ rather than on [...] Read in browser » Last Days is a beautiful and well-intentioned film, but stumbles often By Nick Olszyk on Nov 09, 2025 12:00 pm MPAA Rating: PG-13 Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 reels Last Days tells the true story of John Allen Chau, an American missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese after he illegally landed on the [...] Read in browser » The life of the Trinity in Saint Elizabeth Catez By Dawn Beutner on Nov 09, 2025 09:00 am Each year on a Sunday in May or June, every Catholic priest is assigned the seemingly impossible task of preaching about the mystery of the Trinity. Considering the number of theological errors about God that [...] Read in browser » What will you do this month for the souls in Purgatory? By Susan Ciancio on Nov 08, 2025 06:29 pm In the Catholic Church, the month of November is dedicated to praying for and “relieving the sufferings of the souls in purgatory”—also called the Church Suffering. Those in heaven are the Church Triumphant, and we here on [...] Read in browser » Pope Leo XIV plans to hold major meeting of cardinals in January By Catholic News Agency on Nov 08, 2025 02:00 pm National Catholic Register, Nov 7, 2025 / 17:10 pm Pope Leo XIV is planning to convene an extraordinary consistory of cardinals in early January, the theme of which is not yet known. In a brief [...] Read in browser » Jesus Christ is the new and everlasting Temple By Carl E. Olson on Nov 08, 2025 11:00 am Readings: • Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 • Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 • 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17 • Jn 2:13-22 The great Temple of Solomon was built about a thousand years before the time of Christ. [...] Read in browser » Supreme Court makes ruling on passports and biological sex By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Nov 07, 2025 02:29 pm On Thursday, November 6th, the Supreme Court, in Trump v. Orr, upheld the federal government’s right to issue U.S. passports indicating a person’s true sex. The Administration abandoned the Biden State Department policy that basically [...] Read in browser »