Is the Church dying or reviving?
By David Paul Deavel on May 01, 2026 01:23 amWhat is going on in the Church in America? Is She singing a swan song, or is She rising again from the ashes like the legendary phoenix? In the spirit of legendary Yankee catcher Yogi [...]
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Supreme Court unanimously upholds the rights of a Christian pro-life center
By Charles J. Russo on Apr 30, 2026 07:52 pmIn a stunning unanimous opinion, on April 29, 2026, in First Choice Women’s Center, Inc. v. Davenport, Attorney General of New Jersey, the Supreme Court found in favor of officials of a faith-based pro-life pregnancy center [...]
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Sex and the Unity of the Catholic Church
By Monica Migliorino Miller on Apr 29, 2026 08:42 pmFaced with a German Church that may be, at this point, a schismatic ecclesial body, Pope Leo XIV made remarks on April 22nd that stirred controversy and debate. On April 20th, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of [...]
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UK assisted‑suicide push is ‘losing momentum,’ euthanasia prevention advocate says
By Tessa Gervasini on Apr 29, 2026 02:00 pmThere is a “big pushback happening” against assisted suicide, said Alex Schadenberg, executive director for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. [...]
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In thanksgiving for the gift of baptism
By George Weigel on Apr 29, 2026 04:00 amThree-quarters of a century ago, on April 29, 1951, I was baptized by Father Thomas Love, SJ, in Baltimore’s Church of Saints Philip and James. Old Scratch must have thoroughly sunken his claws into my [..]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, April 29, 2026
By CWR Staff on Apr 29, 2026 03:00 amThe Vatican’s Deal with the CCP is Not Working—But Washington Can Help (Providence): “In 2018, the Holy See made a deal with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in an effort to ‘contribute positively to the life [...]
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The SSPX is now on a clear and direct collision course with Rome
By Larry Chapp on Apr 28, 2026 02:20 pmThe Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Fr. Davide Pagliarani, has recently given a lengthy interview in which he lays out his case for why the Society is justified in defying [...]
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Vatican warns of political promotion of abortion as an instrument of population control
By Victoria Cardiel on Apr 28, 2026 09:37 am“Integral Ecology in the Life of the Family” is a comprehensive overview of environmental and human ecology drawing on the teachings of the previous four popes. [...]
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Saint Louis de Montfort and his “short, perfect and sure way” to Christ
By Dawn Beutner on Apr 28, 2026 04:00 amSaint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716) is best known today as the author of the spiritual classics True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and The Secret of the Rosary. However, Louis de Montfort probably never thought [...]
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Pope Leo XIV meets archbishop of Canterbury amid deepening church divides
By Ishmael Adibuah on Apr 27, 2026 04:20 pmThe pontiff addressed "new problems" facing Catholic-Anglican dialogue in his meeting with Archbishop Sarah Mullally, the first woman to serve as spiritual head of the Anglican Communion. [...]
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On Colorado’s continuing assault on religious liberty
By Kenneth Craycraft on Apr 27, 2026 01:30 pmIf it’s a day that ends in “y,” the State of Colorado has probably passed another law hostile to free speech and religious liberty. And the state’s persistent animus toward Christianity has been keeping the [...]
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A new history of the unrecognized martyrs of the Christian militia orders
By Casey Chalk on Apr 26, 2026 10:47 pmWhen it comes to saints who were also soldiers, the list is relatively short. There is St. Louis IX, the medieval king of France, who fundraised and led two crusades against the Muslim kingdom in [...]
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Controversy at Catholic school in Georgia over reach of the “ministerial exception
By Charles J. Russo on Apr 26, 2026 04:41 pmAn unusual case arose after the principal of St. Peter Claver School in Savannah, Georgia, elected not to renew the contract of a first-grade teacher, Keshel S. Coates, who finds Catholicism “offensive.” The teacher, described as [...]
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Pope Leo XIV tells new priests: ‘You are a channel, not a filter’
By Victoria Cardiel on Apr 26, 2026 08:04 amThe pope ordained 10 men to the priesthood on Good Shepherd Sunday and later warned at the Regina Caeli against the “thieves” that rob people of freedom, dignity, and peace. [...]
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Seeing Woman through the Eyes of Gertrud von le Fort
By Vivian Dudro on Apr 25, 2026 02:03 pmEditor’s note: This essay was delivered as an address on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at the Symposium on Transforming Culture, Benedictine College, Atchison, KS. “The hand that rocks the cradle”, “The power behind the throne”—both [...]
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Saint Peter, the leader of the choir, the ardent lover of Christ
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 25, 2026 11:00 amReadings: • Acts 2:14a, 36-41 • Ps 23:1-2a, 3b-4, 5, 6 • 1 Pet 2:20b-25 • Jn 10:1-10 It would be difficult to find a more eloquent tribute to Saint Peter than that written by [...]
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Melkite priest finds consecrated host intact after 47 days in damaged church
By Romy Haber on Apr 25, 2026 09:00 am“Jesus was waiting for us,” a priest in southern Lebanon said after returning to his damaged church in the town of Tbenine following the ceasefire on April 17. [...]
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On Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, OFM Cap, martyr for the unity of the Faith
By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Apr 24, 2026 01:46 pmApril 24th is the feast day of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577-1622), priest and martyr. St. Fidelis was baptized Markus Rey, born at a time when the Protestant Reformation in Europe was little over fifty [...]
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Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 24, 2026 06:48 am“Indeed it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity.” — Saint Augustine, Confessions (quoted in CCC 2340) “I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by [...]
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