The Dispatch
The Mismeasurement of Dobbs>
There is no doubt that Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, decided four years ago this month, was a legal triumph. In overturning Roe v. [...]
The Confessions of Monsignor Paglia and the Crossroads for Moral Catholic Theology
Essay
In an interview granted to Settimana News on May 21, 2026, Bishop Vincenzo Paglia claimed a decisive role in the dissolution of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family and its replacement [...]
The challenge of applying Catholic social teaching
Columns
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, [...]
Features
AI Humans and the Real Limits of Machines
I read recently in The Atlantic Monthly that artificial intelligence firms are hiring and paying big salaries to philosophers to help them think through the issues facing the developers of AI. They can send me a check, [...]
Essay
The SSPX leadership against Scripture and Tradition
The Holy See has declared that, if the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) proceeds with the ordination of bishops in July without a papal mandate, those involved in these illicit ordinations are automatically (latae sententiae) excommunicated — [...]
Books
Second volume of Justice Scalia biography portrays a unique “founder”
The founding of America was not a single event. It was a process that began long before the documents that broke us away from Great Britain and the documents that established our government. Long before [...]
Analysis
Consequential Consistorial Connections
Several topics will be discussed at the consistory of cardinals called by Pope Leo XIV for June 26-29: the international situation and its effects on local Churches; key themes in the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas; the [...]
Features
How the Female Imagination is Being Corrupted
Beatrice Scudeler’s recent essay on the Public Discourse about Gen Z women and the internet fascination with “men who yearn” exposes a rather inconvenient truth for a culture that has spent sixty years telling women [...]
Essay
Fr. Rossetti, Cardinal McElroy, and the case of unidentified ecclesiastical motives
In a video released May 29, now-former exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington D.C., Msgr. Stephen Rossetti (a priest of Syracuse, New York) described his opinion on the phenomenon of UFOs and their possible connection [...]
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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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Edward J Baker:
Christ said popes have the authority to use His Church as the personal plaything of popes? You're really a Protestant…
Gerard:
It’s tough to be criticized if you are a fragile snowflake.
Mark Tabish:
Gerard/Gerad, I would like to introduce you to the trilogy of Michael Davies: "Cranmer's Godly Order", "Pope John's Council" and…
