Is the family still fundamental?

Is the family still fundamental? By James Kalb on Apr 03, 2025 10:46 pm Last month, I suggested that subsidiarity comes from the idea that social order begins with the family, and proceeds from there to ever broader communities and ultimately to the whole world. This view makes the [...] Read in browser » Snow White survives the discourse By Joseph F. Martin on Apr 03, 2025 09:37 pm After months of online uproar that tagged the new Snow White as everything from “woke heresy” to “committee-made mush,” I braced for impact. So imagine my surprise when I found myself… enjoying it. Is it [...] Read in browser » Bishops urge Cameroonians to assert “right and duty” to engage in political life By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Apr 03, 2025 11:30 am As Cameroon prepares for a Presidential election later this year, Catholic Bishops in the Central African country are warning against apathy, stating that October’s presidential election could be the most consequential in the country. In [...] Read in browser » Lenten lessons from Saint Peter By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Apr 02, 2025 10:38 pm This week’s Lenten focus on conversion and the old Confiteor takes us to “the holy Apostles, Peter and Paul.” I always liked the description an Australian priest friend once applied to them: they were “two [...] Read in browser » Concerns about Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight: A Reply to Pedro Gabriel By Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ on Apr 02, 2025 10:08 pm Since the publication of Amoris Laetitia nine years ago, faithful Catholics from all quarters of the Church have expressed concern about the confusion that has followed in the wake of the Exhortation’s eighth chapter (AL8). We share [...] Read in browser » Report: Attacks on Catholics increasingly common and tolerated in Europe and Latin America By Catholic News Agency on Apr 02, 2025 04:46 pm Polonia Castellanos, founder of the Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers. / Credit: Women World Platform, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Puebla, Mexico, Apr 2, 2025 / 17:46 pm (CNA). Attacks against Christians, especially Catholics, ar... [...] Read in browser » Pope St. John Paul II, Doctor of the Church? By George Weigel on Apr 02, 2025 04:00 am The Catholic Church is prudently patient in awarding the title “Doctor of the Church” to her greatest teachers. However luminous someone’s explication of the truths of the Catholic faith may seem in his or her [...] Read in browser » Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, April 2, 2025 By CWR Staff on Apr 02, 2025 03:00 am Hamas’s Bloodthirsty Rule – “Gazan protests against Hamas’s failed leadership broke out on Tuesday and continued throughout the Strip on Wednesday, the first public opposition shown to Hamas’s rule since the October 7 attacks.” Anti-Hamas [...] Read in browser » The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II By Carl E. Olson on Apr 01, 2025 07:00 pm Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005. [...] Read in browser » Contemplating life and love with St. Pope John Paul II By Susan Ciancio on Apr 01, 2025 05:07 pm Twenty years ago, on April 2, 2005, St. John Paul II died, ending his 26-year pontificate. Throughout his long pontificate, he boldly taught the importance of building a culture of life. In Evangelium Vitae (given [...] Read in browser » On offices as hell, Severance, and white-collar work By Andrew Petiprin on Mar 31, 2025 07:35 pm A little more than two years ago, I wrote my first regular column here at Catholic World Report, and it was about work. I was reflecting on a trip I took to England as part [...] Read in browser » “Let the children come to me” By Nick Olszyk on Mar 31, 2025 05:00 pm MPAA Rating: PG Reel Rating: 3.5 out of 5 reels Cancer is a horrible, traitorous disease in which cells are warped and attack the body they serve. This is always tragic, but even more egregious [...] Read in browser » Lourdes bishop covers Rupnik mosaics on doors to Basilica of the Rosary By Catholic News Agency on Mar 31, 2025 10:03 am Mosaics by alleged abuser Father Marko Rupnik are displayed throughout the shrine in Lourdes, France. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 31, 2025 / 11:03 am (CNA). The Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France announced Monday that t... [...] Read in browser » What it Means to be a Body: A Philosophical Primer By Matthew Nelson on Mar 31, 2025 04:00 am Gender-altering surgeries. Abortion on demand. “Swingers Break”, offering spring breakers “a personal paradise where you can explore and enjoy all your hedonistic desires” (yes, all one’s hedonistic desires). Pope John Paul II warned us that by abandoning [...] Read in browser » New song and video pay tribute to Carlo Acutis and the Eucharist By Kathy Schiffer on Mar 30, 2025 07:09 pm On April 27th, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of Teenagers, Pope Francis will canonize Blessed Carlo Acutis. Carlo, who died of leukemia in 2005, was a computer geek who loved video games. More than that, though, [...] Read in browser » Supreme Court to review Colorado ban on “conversion therapy” By Charles J. Russo on Mar 30, 2025 05:41 pm On March 11, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Chiles v. Salazar this fall, The case challenges a Colorado law infringing on the free speech rights of a licensed Christian counselor who provided “conversion therapy” [...] Read in browser » AI, the Technocratic Paradigm, and Integral Human Fulfillment By Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D. on Mar 29, 2025 04:20 pm At the end of January, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, together with the Dicastery for Culture and Education, released a document entitled Antiqua et nova: A Note on the Relationship Between Artificial [...] Read in browser » The Parable of the Merciful Father By Carl E. Olson on Mar 29, 2025 04:00 pm Readings:  • Jos 5:9a, 10-12 • Psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 • 2 Cor 5:17-21 • Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 The parable of the prodigal son is, along with the parable of the good Samaritan, the best-known [...] Read in browser » The Theotokos in Lent: Reflections on The Akathist Hymn By David Paul Deavel on Mar 28, 2025 08:00 pm The Lenten journey is one of following Christ. Throughout the ages, a great many Lenten hymns, prayers, and devotions involving Mary have developed. That’s not surprising at all. For Lent is about standing up and [...] Read in browser » Be free: Experiencing the promise of the Jubilee Year By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Mar 28, 2025 05:00 pm Why does the Church celebrate Jubilee years? The concept comes from the Old Testament, marking the completion of seven cycles of sabbath years, a time of rest given to the land every seven years. In [...] Read in browser »