The Dispatch
The Gospel of the Trinity: “God is Love”
Readings: • Ex 34:4B-6, 8-9 • Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 • 2 Cor 13:11-13 • Jn 3:16-18 “The divine nature,” wrote St. Thomas [...]
Rediscovering Joan of Arc
Essay
As she was being led to the stake to be executed, most of the hostile crowd thought she was a witch. Yet, by the time Joan of Arc had been burned alive on May 30, [...]
Why I think Magnifica Humanitas is a pointed and prophetic gut punch
Chapp's Schtick
Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is a pointed and prophetic gut punch. Don’t be fooled by the usual “ecclesial-speak” argot of the text. When read carefully and closely, what emerges is a blunt, and even [...]
Columns
Magnifica Humanitas: The Human Person Between Glory and Fragility
There are many newsworthy dimensions to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. If you’ve followed the Holy Father’s homilies, catecheses, and public addresses, the broad direction of the document is not surprising. Even so, [...]
Books
Magnifica Humanitas: Pope invokes justice to combat ‘anti-human vision’ in AI
Published Monday, the pope’s new encyclical warns of a “culture of power” fueled by the digital revolution and artificial intelligence. […]
Essay
The Virgin Mary’s Message to Nigeria
The persecution of Christians currently taking place in Nigeria was foretold by the Blessed Virgin Mary in a church-approved apparition that many have never heard of. In 1992, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young [...]
Essay
Pentecost and the priesthood
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 2026, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City. Wind, fire, thunder, and lightning. The Sacred Scriptures are replete with [...]
Essay
Sex and Catholic Social Teaching
As someone who has long labored in the service of the Catholic Church’s teachings on fraught sexual expression topics, I think I understand Pope Leo XIV’s recent remarks on Catholic sexual morality in response to [...]
Analysis
Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the U.S.: A New Look at the Numbers
3,035 diocesan seminarians are preparing for priestly ordination in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, an increase of nearly 2% over the previous year, according to data published in the most recent (2025) edition [...]
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Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is a pointed and prophetic gut punch. Don’t be fooled by the usual “ecclesial-speak” argot of the text. When read carefully and closely, what emerges is a blunt, and even [...] -
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“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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Sabino:
I think the only fool would be a principal who hired a non-Catholic and expected to be a Catholic even…
PeterBeaulieu:
Deacon, Please note that Brian is almost certainly Brian Young, a long-time sniper at things Catholic, and himself an admitted…
