The Dispatch
Via Crucis, 2026
The Way of the Cross—and the third, seventh, and ninth stations in particular—has been an especially appropriate Lenten devotion this year. Every day, it seems, [...]
Holy Week in Song and Verse
Essay
When I was confirmed in the Church during graduate school, I would not have said, as many other converts do, that my conversion was initiated by the beauty of Catholic art and music. To be [...]
Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part One
Essay
Editor’s note: The following piece is the first part of a two-part essay. I In 1846, John Henry Newman traveled to Rome to see if he could arrange to undertake seminary studies for the Catholic priesthood. [...]
Features
Africa’s second exodus
When reports confirmed that thousands of young Africans had been lured into fighting for Russia in its war on Ukraine, the world reacted with shock and outrage. For Fr. Augustine Anwuchie, however, it was not [...]
Analysis
A Question of Perspective: Who Gets Fired and Why?
It has been ranked “as among the most significant developments in moral theology in the past fifty years.” This was how the late Fr. Richard McCormick described Catholic University of America’s decision in 1988 to [...]
Features
The Left’s cancellation of Cesar Chavez looks bad either way
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared in AMAC’s “Newsline” and is reposted here with kind permission Though the power of the #MeToo movement peaked long ago, the Left’s cancellation machine kicked into gear this past [...]
Essay
Flannery O’Connor’s “both/and” vision of reality
In the wake of Flannery O’Connor’s death on March 25, 1965, the Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton said, “When I read Flannery O’Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, [...]
Books
Introducing Communio Theology: An interview with Tracey Rowland
Tracey Rowland holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Australia). She received her PhD from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and her STL and STD [...]
Essay
Cardinal Newman: Doctor of Catholic Education, Part Two
Editor’s note: The following is Part Two of an address given to The Thomistic Institute of Fordham University on February 26, 2026 (read Part One). 3. Does a Catholic university have a distinctive curriculum? John Paul [...]
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It’s no secret that we are inhabiting a moment in which digitalization is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace. Day by day, screens, algorithms, and infrastructures of virtual reality are becoming the dominant frame [...] -
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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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Timothy J. Williams:
"Warmongers"? Gosh, the title of this article would not be rather slanted, would it? Would the author have asked concerning…
Mortain:
Is there some unwritten requirement that we have to quote either Von Balthasar or De Lubac in every post? If…
Peter D. Beaulieu:
About Islamic jihad and Christ: two quotes, a dialogue, and a summary: FIRST, in contrast with the Christian and Western…
