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The transmission theory of authority

Scholastic thinkers like Cardinal Cajetan, St. Robert Bellarmine, and Francisco Suárez developed what is sometimes called a “transmission theory” of governmental authority. It holds that [...]
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Ethics and Public Policy Center at 50: A part of America’s ‘secret sauce’

WASHINGTON — As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) is also celebrating an auspicious anniversary this year: its 50th. Several [...]
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“As people of faith, we know a better world is possible,”: Groups plea for end of Sudanese crisis

(CWR, Yaoundé) As the conflict in Sudan enters its fourth year, major faith-based organizations are uniting to demand immediate international action to protect civilians. In [...]
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Blue Miles: A Monastic Novel introduces the monastic life to 21st-century readers

Our culture has a strange fascination with monks. Perhaps there is something about a man being willing to reject the world and enter religious life, [...]
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The Story of Everything explores ultimate meaning in light of faith, science

Nearly everyone, at some point, has questions about the origin of the universe, the meaning of life, or how humankind began. These are not always [...]

“As people of faith, we know a better world is possible,”: Groups plea for end of Sudanese crisis

Features

Ngala Killian Chimtom May 3, 2026 2

(CWR, Yaoundé) As the conflict in Sudan enters its fourth year, major faith-based organizations are uniting to demand immediate international action to protect civilians. In an April 15th statement, groups including ACT Alliance, Caritas Internationalis, [...]

Former federal prosecutor: ‘I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit’

Features

Tyler Arnold May 2, 2026 33

The Senate Judiciary Committee released the texts by ex-prosecutors who were dismissed shortly after Donald Trump returned to the presidency. […]

Analysis

Is the Church dying or reviving?

David Paul Deavel April 30, 2026 14

What 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 [...]

Essay

Sex and the Unity of the Catholic Church

Monica Migliorino Miller April 29, 2026 32

Faced 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 [...]

Chapp's Schtick

The SSPX is now on a clear and direct collision course with Rome

Larry Chapp April 28, 2026 144

The 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 [...]

Analysis

On Colorado’s continuing assault on religious liberty

Kenneth Craycraft April 27, 2026 14

If 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 [...]

Books

A new history of the unrecognized martyrs of the Christian militia orders

Casey Chalk April 26, 2026 10

When 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 [...]

Essay

Seeing Woman through the Eyes of Gertrud von le Fort

Vivian Dudro April 25, 2026 8

Editor’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 [...]

The SSPX is now on a clear and direct collision course with Rome

Larry Chapp April 28, 2026 144

The 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 [...]
In gratitude for the Ordinariate

Larry Chapp April 8, 2026 56
How much emphasis on politics? And to what end?

James Kalb April 7, 2026 43

Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

Carl E. Olson April 24, 2026 151

“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 [...]
The Politics of Three Cardinals

CWR Staff January 21, 2026 131
The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 151

The transmission theory of authority

Ethics and Public Policy Center at 50: A part of America’s ‘secret sauce’

“As people of faith, we know a better world is possible,”: Groups plea for end of Sudanese crisis

Blue Miles: A Monastic Novel introduces the monastic life to 21st-century readers

The Story of Everything explores ultimate meaning in light of faith, science

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“As people of faith, we know a better world is possible,”: Groups plea for end of Sudanese crisis

Former federal prosecutor: ‘I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit’

Is the Church dying or reviving?

Sex and the Unity of the Catholic Church

The SSPX is now on a clear and direct collision course with Rome

On Colorado’s continuing assault on religious liberty

A new history of the unrecognized martyrs of the Christian militia orders

Seeing Woman through the Eyes of Gertrud von le Fort

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The SSPX is now on a clear and direct collision course with Rome

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Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love

“God is alive and well in the modern medical center”

Amid war and migration, Pope Leo XIV to bring message of religious freedom to North Africa

Disenchantment or Desecration? An interview with Carl R. Trueman

A new history of the unrecognized martyrs of the Christian militia orders

“God is alive and well in the modern medical center”

The Secure Bond Marriage Needs Today

Sex and the Unity of the Catholic Church

Seeing Woman through the Eyes of Gertrud von le Fort

Justice Scalia’s Faith

“As people of faith, we know a better world is possible,”: Groups plea for end of Sudanese crisis

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