The Dispatch
America at 250: The Last, Best Hope
I was six years old when America celebrated her Bicentennial. Like so many children of my generation, I can still remember the flags lining neighborhood [...]
Vatican confirms excommunication of SSPX bishops, declares schism
Features
Because the traditionalist group consecrated bishops without papal approval, the Vatican issued a decree on July 2 declaring those bishops and their consecrators automatically excommunicated. […]
What links disintegration? On Rousseau, gnosticism, and Saint Michael
Essay
The truth will not only “make us free” but it is itself free. We all come in fact to know the same truth, otherwise we could not communicate at all with one another. This is why the [...]
Analysis
Social contagion and the rise and fall of transgenderism
For more than a decade, the United States and much of the Western world witnessed a dramatic rise in transgender identification, especially among female adolescents and young adults. The speed, the scale, and the demographic concentration [...]
Essay
Digging deeper into the “Christian” origins of feminism and of our nation
The current debate over the Christian origins of feminism is a lot like the one over the Christian origins of America. It is argued that the Founders of America and the “first wave” feminists were [...]
Analysis
Getting Bible Translations Right: A Case Study from 1 and 2 Timothy
In a recent address, Pope Leo XIV counseled priests not to rely on artificial intelligence for the composition of their homilies: Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if [...]
Features
Opinion: The U.S. bishops missed an opportunity with changes to the “Charter”
The internet buzzed after the U.S. bishops consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Orlando on Thursday. June 11. Catholic news outlets and bloggers mostly raved enthusiastically, while the secular media propagated [...]
Essay
What St. Josemaría Escrivá’s detractors can teach us about him and about holiness
Not every saint is universally esteemed at the time of his or her death. False accusations from a hostile priest stained the reputation of Saint John of the Cross for decades after he died. Soon-to-be [...]
Essay
What Truths Do We Hold? A Response to Questions and Critics
My June 9, 2026, essay, “Celebrating* 250 Years of American Mythology?,” has drawn over a hundred comments. As often happens in the comments section of any online forum, the majority of these are people arguing [...]
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Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, which, he had prophesied, was doomed to end in catastrophe. He lived without worldly ties: without a job, wife, children, steady source of income, [...] -
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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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