By Collin Slowey on Jul 31, 2026 04:20 am
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is proving quite controversial, in part
because it admits of so many different interpretations. Is it a
nefarious piece of woke propaganda? A parable about PTSD? Or an
“apologia for Christian morality,” as [...]
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By Fr. Charles Fox on Jul 31, 2026 03:00 am
Because we are rational human beings, it is best for us not only to do God’s will, but also first to know God’s will and [...]
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By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Jul 30, 2026 02:39 pm
July 30th is the feast day of Blessed Solanus Casey, a Capuchin friar
who died in 1957 and who has a strong chance of becoming the first man
in the United States to be declared [...]
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By Ishmael Adibuah on Jul 30, 2026 12:00 pm
The U.S.-born pontiff expressed affection for his homeland in an interview with NBC News on July 29. [...]
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By Matthew Becklo on Jul 30, 2026 10:29 am
Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally at CWR on December 26,
2023. In a recent BBC interview, Anthony Fauci reflects on his own
“complicated” relationship with the Catholic Church. Fauci and the
reporter are [...]
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By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Jul 30, 2026 04:00 am
“I held my mother and siblings in a warm, tearful embrace of hope,”
Pauline (not her real name) recalls. She pauses, offering a wan and ashy
smile as the memory of November 23, 2016, washes [...]
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By Marcus Peter on Jul 29, 2026 04:00 pm
Twenty years ago, a small social media platform called Twitter was
launched into public life. Few imagined that a service built around
brief updates would become one of the principal architects of modern
consciousness through [...]
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By George Weigel on Jul 29, 2026 04:00 am
A 2025 YouGov poll revealed some interesting factoids about Americans’
reading habits—or lack thereof. 40% of us didn’t read a book last year.
About a quarter of the country read one to four books in [...]
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By CWR Staff on Jul 29, 2026 03:00 am
5 years after Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions, traditionalist
Catholics reflect on ‘Traditionis Custodes’ (America): “Five years after
its release, a papal document on the preconciliar form of the Mass,
commonly called the “traditional Latin [...]
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By Kenneth Craycraft on Jul 28, 2026 02:55 pm
In a pivotal scene in Robert Bolt’s play, A Man for All Seasons, St.
Thomas More is confronted by his son-in-law, William Roper, with news
that Parliament is about to pass the Act of Succession, [...]
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By Francesca Pollio Fenton on Jul 28, 2026 12:30 pm
Season 6 of “The Chosen” will be released on Prime Video beginning Nov. 15. [...]
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By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Jul 28, 2026 12:02 am
Many know St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, the Carmelite martyr to
Nazism, at least by her name in the world, Edith Stein. However, she was
by no means the only Carmelite victim of National [...]
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By Walter Sánchez Silva on Jul 27, 2026 12:40 pm
Pope Leo XIV also appointed Bishop Edward Lohse of Kalamazoo, Michigan,
along with canon law experts from Spain, Germany, Poland, and Italy, to
five-year terms on the Apostolic Signatura. [...]
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By Dr. Randall B. Smith on Jul 27, 2026 04:00 am
The 1991 “perfect storm,” made famous by the movie of that name starring
George Clooney, resulted from a rare collision of three distinct
weather systems that converged to create an exceptionally massive and
destructive storm. [...]
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By Victoria Cardiel on Jul 26, 2026 05:48 pm
The pontiff also reflected on the kingdom of God as a treasure that
enlarges life and unites people of different backgrounds in Christ. [...]
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By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Jul 26, 2026 09:10 am
1Editor’s note: This homily was preached on the Seventeenth Sunday, July
26, 2026, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. Last
Sunday, we considered the centrality of grace in the Christian life and [...]
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By Bohumil Petrík on Jul 25, 2026 07:00 am
A long-running study of German and Austrian monasteries suggests that
much of the gap between how long men and women live comes down to how
men live, not to biology. [...]
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By Carl E. Olson on Jul 25, 2026 05:00 am
Readings: • 1 Kngs 3:5, 7-12 • Psa 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130 •
Rom 8:28-30 • Mt 13:44-52 How good are you and I at recognizing
something that is valuable, even priceless? That question [...]
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By Monica Seeley on Jul 24, 2026 03:52 pm
I thought of Jeff Gardner’s Landscapes of Grace during a recent mellow
evening ramble with my teenage son. I thought of it again last weekend
as I slogged uphill on a hot day, with the [...]
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By Tyler Arnold on Jul 24, 2026 11:49 am
Burch said his recent comments to the New York Times were not meant to
imply that Pope Leo’s statements about the Iran war should be seen as
simply diplomatic — rather than spiritual — guidance. [...]
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By Filip Mazurczak on Jul 24, 2026 04:00 am
While the dominant narrative in the West since the Enlightenment has
been that religion is obscurantist and hostile to science, until the
twentieth century, it was in the Christian West where the most important
scientific [...]
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By Susan Ciancio on Jul 24, 2026 12:54 am
Be of service. Those three short words have the potential to carry an
enormous positive impact when acted upon with love. I have thought of
those words for weeks, ever since I watched an episode [...]
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By Solène Tadié on Jul 23, 2026 12:27 pm
“France is leading the way in Europe by becoming the first country to
establish a ‘digital age of majority,’” said the country’s minister
delegate for digital sovereignty. [...]
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By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Jul 23, 2026 04:00 am
This summer has led me on an unexpected pilgrimage related to the
founding of the United States. I wrote previously about traveling some
of the paths taken by Spanish explorers in 1776, including the trek
through [...]
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By CWR Contributors on Jul 22, 2026 08:49 pm
Editor’s note: The following essay was penned by a participant in the
Catholic apostolate of Courage. Author’s note: I did not read the
official response by Courage International before writing this essay,
and thus arrived at [...]
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