The Dispatch
Fact-checking the New Yorker
Back in the day, when the New Yorker set the standard for literary elegance among serious American journals, writers were driven to distraction by the fanatical fact-checking [...]
Islam, Iran, and the separation of church and state
Essay
Public debate surrounding the turmoil in Iran is increasing, and rightly so. Unfortunately, I have observed an increasing default to a tired conclusion, namely that religion itself represents a corrosive threat to political order and [...]
When words mean anything, they mean nothing(ness)
Essay
Over the course of a few days in mid-January, the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) heard oral argument in a major Title IX case, a U.S. Senate committee held a hearing about the danger of chemical abortions, and [...]
Features
The “Old Mass” and the “Novus Ordo” Mass: Irreconcilable differences?
Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally at CWR on July 3, 2022. “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” (Col. 3:21) The relationship between the preconciliar and postconciliar forms of Mass [...]
Analysis
Iran, the Quran, and the West
What is unfolding in Iran today is faithful to the Quran. The present regime represents the mature expression of political Islam as articulated through Quranic command, prophetic precedent, and juridical enforcement. The Iranian theocracy emerged [...]
Chapp's Schtick
Ratzinger v. Kasper: Why the debate matters even more today
December 31, 2025, marked the third anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI. Perhaps, therefore, now is as good a time as any to look back and reflect on his legacy. But why yet [...]
Essay
“Swinging for the fences”: Lessons from my younger brother on living and dying
December 12, 2021, was the day my younger brother’s scan revealed the hard news that the pain in his left hip—which he jokingly called “a giant tumor”—was indeed precisely that. For months, he had attributed [...]
Essay
Thoughts on America, Age 250
Americans are bad at history. As the late Christopher Lasch and many other scholars have noted, we’re ambivalent about the past. We claim to be a “new order of the ages,” words stamped in Latin [...]
Features
Walk for Life West Coast and OneLife LA to hold events on January 24, 2026
Two major pro-life walks organized by Catholics will return to California on Saturday, January 24. They are timed roughly in conjunction with the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which struck [...]
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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...] -
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Romney noted at that luncheon speech caught on tape, that 50 million pay nothing, and that paved the way for…
