The Dispatch
Three great Lenten themes
The entire purpose of Lent, now past the halfway mark, is to prepare us for the glory of Easter and its revelation of the destiny [...]
The Lenten fast of St. Patrick atop Ireland’s holy mountain
Essay
As Catholics, we celebrate the saints for their heroic witness to our Christian Faith. Each saint has a day on the Church calendar, which typically falls on the date of death, known as their dies [...]
“Lived Experience” and Moral Tradition: Rivals or Partners?
Essay
One question facing Pope Leo XIV will be whether to advance the “new paradigm” for moral theology proposed by Pope Francis and some of his advisors in recent years. In 2016, in Chapter 8 of [...]
Features
Young Catholic men discuss the state of dating and relationships today
As a married Gen-Xer, with kids, who’s been out of the dating world for almost two decades, I wanted to get some insight into how young men are faring in meeting a potential mate. Healthy [...]
Features
“Our diocese is not a slaughter slab where human beings are butchered”
Amidst ongoing preparations for the arrival of Pope Leo XVI in Cameroon, the Bishop of Kumbo Diocese has offered a chilling appraisal of the ten-year separatist conflict that has devastated Cameroon’s English-speaking regions. The Holy [...]
Features
Tensions grow in Iceland as priest upholds Church’s moral teaching
A flashpoint of Catholic faith and life in the Western liberal democracies is occurring in an unusual place: Iceland. The Church has been in the headlines this month in the North Atlantic island nation, a [...]
Chapp's Schtick
On Tracey Rowland’s important Introduction to Communio Theology
In an ancient Greek legend, Alexander the Great famously solved the challenge of untying the Gordian knot by bypassing that seemingly impossible task entirely and instead chose, simply and directly, to slice through it with [...]
Essay
Cardinal Newman: Doctor of Catholic Education, Part One
Editor’s note: The following is Part One (of two) of an address given to The Thomistic Institute of Fordham University on February 26, 2026. Introductory Remarks We are gathered in the month which marks the [...]
Books
A unique fairy tale meant to give “Escape and Consolation”
Author E.P. Cowley is a retired homeschooling mother living in southern British Columbia, Canada, who holds a master’s degree in English literature from Portland State University. Her novel, Tales from Wakken Wood, recently published by [...]
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Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s [...] -
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We are all now enjoying the fruits of Modern catholicism.
