The Dispatch
The Cross is the doorway to communion with God
Readings: • Gen 12:1-4a • Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 • 2 Tim 1:8b-10 • Mt 17:1-9 “Life is short; death is certain,” wrote St. [...]
The State of Our Divided Union
Essay
I was rather disappointed in the recent State of the Union address, but not for the reasons many readers might think. I believe that most Americans watched it the way one watches a meticulously overproduced [...]
Pro-life activist questions inclusion of Candace Owens in speaker’s bureau
Features
Amanda Achtman is a Canadian Catholic pro-life advocate. Ethics Director for Canadian Physicians for Life and founder of the Dying to Meet You project, Achtman has built a reputation for herself as an articulate and [...]
Features
“We need to know where we are going”: An interview with Bishop Erik Varden
Editor’s note: This interview, originally published at CWR on November 14, 2024, is reposted as an introduction to those readers who want to know more about Bishop Erik Varden, who has been leading the Lenten [...]
Essay
No, AI does not have human-level intelligence
In an article at Nature, Eddy Keming Chen, Mikhail Belkin, Leon Bergen, and David Danks ask, “Does AI already have human-level intelligence?” and claim that “the evidence is clear” that the answer is Yes. (Though the article [...]
Features
Actress and producer Siobhan Fallon Hogan reflects on faith, family, and film
You might not know the name Siobhan Fallon Hogan, but you almost certainly recognize her face. A prominent character actor for the last three decades, she has appeared in films including Forrest Gump, Only You, Men in Black, Holes, Daddy [...]
Essay
Saint Polycarp of Smyrna: Father of the Church and apostle to Protestants
Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was not the first Protestant who decided to become a Catholic after reading the Fathers of the Church. And he’s not alone. The Coming Home Network, a group established to [...]
Features
Bishops continue to urge Notre Dame to reverse ‘scandalous’ appointment of pro-abortion professor
U.S. bishops are continuing to criticize the University of Notre Dame over its controversial decision to appoint a pro-abortion professor to lead a university institute. The school has been under sustained criticism since it announced [...]
Books
Gates of Heaven is the daring conclusion of an unusual, powerful Catholic trilogy
In his most recent novel, Gates of Heaven (2025, Wiseblood Books), Glenn Arbery wraps up the complex, fraught, and evocative chronicle of friends, families, and foes working out their salvation in the contemporary American South and West. [...]
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We live in unusual times, and Donald Trump is, to put it mildly, an unusual politician. We need to understand him to deal with him, and with that in mind, I will present my own [...] -
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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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Peter D. Beaulieu:
About the past 67 years in Cuba, and recalling here what might have been....in 1961, what if the newly-elected President…
Larry Ladutke:
Regardless of your position on abortion, you should not celebrate the use of authoritarian strategies such as foreign agent laws--comparable…
Kathleen Boldrick:
What a good life we have had with those good people around us, though far away...❤️ Thank you, Lord!
