The Dispatch
“If by ‘capitalism’…”
Over the past sixteen years, Gallup has tracked Americans’ perceptions of capitalism and socialism. A year ago, some news was made when the percentage of Americans with [...]
How the Mass helped to shape Western civilization
Essay
There is no shortage of recent literature across the political spectrum warning of the profound cultural crisis confronting the West and the erosion of the moral assumptions that once bound society together. Douglas Murray writes [...]
History is not enough: Women deacons and the unity of holy orders
Analysis
In four recent articles, Phyllis Zagano has renewed her long-standing argument for admitting women to the ordained diaconate. Writing in America, The Tablet, Religion News Service, and Commonweal, she presses a consistent claim: the historical [...]
Books
Cosmic Covenant is a robust, orthodox presentation of a theology of creation
When my family lived in Panama, we had both garbage and recycling collection. The running joke was that the “recycling” was a charade, and that the trucks were taking everything to the same landfill—only about [...]
Books
Hollow Culture, Brittle Relationships, and Spiritual Poverty
Noelle Mering’s new book, titled No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them, looks at the distressing rise of family estrangement. It’s a phenomenon the author compares [...]
Essay
The Evangelization Power of Rome
In centuries past, the great missionaries of the Church—many now canonized saints—traveled to the far ends of the earth to bring Christ to those the Church once called pagans. The dangers were not exaggerated. Months [...]
Books
Light after an eclipse: An interview with attorney and translator Andrew Greenwell
The Carthusians are all but unknown—both inside and outside the Catholic Church—and they likely want to keep it that way. If anyone has heard of these sons of St. Bruno (their founder), it’s through Chartruese, [...]
Essay
A Bishop Who Leads
Virginia voters are being asked to support two changes in the state constitution. Both are on the far frontier of the sexual revolution. And Bishop Michael Francis Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington is leading [...]
Essay
Catholic Social Thought and the Corpus Leoninum
Recently, while researching an article on Augusto Del Noce, I came across a quoted paragraph from Etienne Gilson that led me down a train of thought that might interest others. The quote preceded Del Noce’s [...]
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Editor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. James V. Schall was published originally in slightly different form at Ignatius Insight on September 8, 2006, to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, [...] -
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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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Fr Peter Morello, PhD:
Yes Deacon Peitler I'm aware. Although in most parishes I've served the Deacon or Deacons never show up to manage…
William:
Socialism is not the answer but neither is predatory, late stage capitalism. Billionaires become trillionaires while the rest of us…
Cy Kellett:
Thank you for casting this light on the thing that all the deceptions of the modern world conspire to obscure:…
