The Dispatch
Why OCIA is not a class…
What does it take to make someone a Catholic? The waters of Baptism bring new birth, yet when we look around, we find many baptized [...]
Why seminaries need to teach political philosophy and study of statesmanship
Essay
I taught in fine seminary programs at the beginning and end of my full-time teaching career, with stints at Catholic colleges and universities in between. I continue to teach part-time for the college seminary of [...]
On Christ the King and the idolatry of politics
Essay
Editor’s note: This homily was preached on the feast of Christ the King (Extraordinary Form), October 25, 2026, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. In the calendar of the Usus Antiquior, [...]
Chapp's Schtick
Amoris Laetitia in 2026 and the deeper crisis of faith today
The anticipated meeting in Rome to revisit and possibly reassess Amoris Laetitia is now over. And whatever Pope Leo wishes to do with its deliberations will now be on hold as he recovers from surgery, [...]
Essay
On the private life and public testimony of Elisabeth Elliot
I first encountered Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) through her husband. I was a new student at a college in South Carolina when a friend pressed a copy of Shadow of the Almighty (1958) into my hands [...]
Features
From the Archives: Realism and Islam
Editor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. Schall was posted first at CWR on April 17, 2016. I. Political realism, long associated with Augustine, constrains us to consider what Machiavelli later recommended to us—namely, [...]
Columns
How to turn the corner? Reflections on the way forward
Technology operates by defining goals clearly, breaking situations down into their simplest components, and finding the most effective and reliable way to deal with each piece of the puzzle. That approach is effective with simple [...]
Essay
Prof. Jérôme Lejeune on Human Ethics and the Unborn Child
On May 7, 1974, less than 500 days after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the disastrous Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, a world-renowned geneticist testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s [...]
Essay
Eight Rules of Life from Saint Teresa of Ávila
She would have laughed if she had been told that she would someday be named a Doctor of the Church. Teresa de Ahumada y Cepeda (1515-1582), better known as Saint Teresa of Ávila, received the [...]
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“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...] -
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Jonathan:
Most (other) Freemasons believe in something too, so what? That doesn't save one's soul! Loving God & neighbor according our…
ragnar bergendahl:
When readers doze off, nothing works as well as the siren call of assailing his Lordship, King Donald to bring…
Thomas S Nowacki:
Because it wasn't done in church
