The Dispatch
“I have called you friends”
St. Paul famously instructs the Corinthian church, “So faith, hope, love, remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” Yet, what does this [...]
Unbroken: News from the Church in China
Analysis
Sitting in the room with Chinese priests and nuns is always an exercise of patient listening and reading between the lines. Sometimes—it is not typically characteristic of Chinese culture to speak directly—someone is blunt. That [...]
Winnowing Weasel Words
Essay
Popes have long been political players on the world stage. In recent times, John Paul II worked with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan to bring down the Berlin Wall. Benedict XVI addressed a joint sitting [...]
Features
“Adore Him” combines history and testimony in promoting Eucharistic adoration
Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry, a Catholic evangelization apostolate founded and led by Deacon Steve Greco, director of evangelization and formation for the Diocese of Orange in California, has produced a film titled “Adore Him”. It is [...]
Books
New YOUCAT Love Forever is “a guide to formation for married love”
Mark Brumley is the president of Ignatius Press, one of the nation’s biggest U.S. Catholic publishers and multimedia distributors, and also the publisher of the Catholic World Report. He holds a Master’s degree in theology [...]
Features
Florida’s Catholic Attorney General, Bishops Face Off Over Vaccines
Florida is a “school choice” state, allowing parents to pay for private school tuition with state-funded education savings accounts. But Catholic school children in the state are not given a choice enjoyed by their public [...]
Features
Islamist persecution, Christian survival, and encountering the Houthis in Yemen
I was idling in my room at the Arabia Felix, drinking Orange Fanta and eyeing geckos on the wall, when a message came from the lobby. I’d been granted the meeting I was hoping for [...]
Analysis
Clarifying primacy for Catholic-Orthodox dialogue
Last month, on July 13 to 15, I attended the 30th annual Orientale Lumen Conference at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C. The conference’s theme was urgent: “Ecumenism at a Crossroad: [...]
Features
Faith over fear: The Church’s response to the escalating Ebola crisis in Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is grappling with the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in its history. It’s already killed over 2,100 people out of more than 4,500 cases, according to government figures released August 11. [...]
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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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Knowall:
Their reply has been tone deaf- if you don't like it then don't come here.
Fr Peter Morello, PhD:
Yes it is mrscracker. It's walking a tightrope. I've learned that appeal to my priesthood doesn't work very well when…
Michael B:
As I contemplate the life of the Church in China, I conclude that I could not be faithful there. The…
