The Dispatch
St. Perpetua’s Purgatory
Awaiting her execution in jail, Vibia Perpetua, a young mother and spiritual leader of a group of Christians in Carthage, had a vision while in [...]
Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024
Editorial
The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...]
On our need for sanctity, weirdness, and wild gratuity
Chapp's Schtick
Deep nihilism and deceptive scientism Our culture is nihilistic. This is a fundamental premise that guides almost everything I write about. The deep nihilism of modernity is the air that we breathe—our deep worldview of [...]
Analysis
Cause for conflict: The Catholic Church and property rights in American law
In what is now a decades-long trend, reports of American Catholic dioceses declaring bankruptcy continue to filter into the news. To a large extent, this financial retreat is fallout from the ongoing clergy sexual abuse [...]
Essay
Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF
Pro-lifers should rejoice in the defeat of Kamala Harris, and of the Democratic Party, which remains the greatest threat to the unborn in American politics. But they cannot rest, because their job is only half [...]
Essay
On the history and feast of the “Protection of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn”
An intriguing medieval fresco can be found in the church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg, France. It depicts fifteen kings processing by horseback, each carrying a standard bearing the name of his respective nation. The image [...]
Features
“We need to know where we are going”: An interview with Bishop Erik Varden
Bishop Erik Varden was born in Norway in 1974, into a non-practicing Lutheran family, and entered the Catholic Church in June 1993. In 2002, after ten years of study at the University of Cambridge, he [...]
Features
Catholic Imagination Conference, focused on past and future, continues to grow
NOTRE DAME, IN – What began nine years ago as a small-scale effort to re-emphasize a Catholic consciousness in fiction, poetry, and other fine arts has now grown into something much more comprehensive. The Biennial [...]
Features
Liturgical Musical Chairs
By now, most readers will have heard about the whiplash emanating from the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, as Bishop Shawn McKnight’s decree of October 28 on liturgical music was revoked by November 5. The original document arose from [...]
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Athanasius:
Right? A typical progressive with zero self- awareness. You can't make this stuff up.
Fr Peter Morello PhD:
Recognition of the moral dimension as a motivation for the majority Catholic vote cannot be lost. Catholics, however nominal nonetheless…
