The Dispatch
Opinion: Reflections on a week when madness overwhelmed public discourse
These past few days have given us a series of civic episodes in which the public square seems to lose its mind all at once. [...]
The Secure Bond Marriage Needs Today
Books
In 1949, Ida Friederike Görres wrote, “That which is unnatural … people say, is indissolubility.” She disagreed. By 1971, when she sent her final book, What Binds Marriage Forever (CUA Press, 2026), to the publisher, she saw [...]
A Realist Outline of History, Part Two
Essay
Editor’s note: Part One of this essay can be read here. The First Apocalypse: The Blessings of Anarchy In the fifth century, the Western Church suffered its First Apocalypse, losing its demographic race to revive [...]
Essay
An Open Letter to Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ
Your Eminence: In an article recently published by a major German Catholic website, you suggested that the question of whether the Church can ordain women has not been definitively settled: “I cannot imagine how a [...]
Essay
Is the war in Iran just?
It has been said that the first casualty of war is truth. I wonder whether we should say instead that the first casualty of war is clear reasoning, even on the part of intelligent and [...]
Essay
Thoughts on Donald Trump, self-evident truths, and political idolatry
The first half of April 2026 has provided a number of examples of the danger of political idolatry in the United States. Events in early April have also reminded us Catholics that our political or [...]
Essay
A Realist Outline of History, Part One
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part essay. Most diagnoses of our current cultural malaise have focused on either of two narrower causes: the ideological and idealistic, or the organizational and materialistic. [...]
Features
Updated: Mark Houck awarded seven-figure settlement in lawsuit against DOJ
Mark Houck, the Pennsylvania father of seven and pro-life advocate whose 2022 arrest made national headlines, has won a seven-figure settlement in federal court. Shawn Carney, President of 40 Days for Life, announced the settlement [...]
Features
Amid war and migration, Pope Leo XIV to bring message of religious freedom to North Africa
As Pope Leo XIV prepares to embark on his apostolic journey to Africa, the shadow of regional conflict and the plight of migrants loom large over the continent’s northern shores. Algeria, the first stop of [...]
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Recently, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document on the importance of the Anglican Ordinariates. The text has a long and rather awkward title: “Characteristics of the Anglican Heritage as Lived [...] -
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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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Eunoia:
Put simply a rebuttal of false equivalence does not cut the mustard in this case we are debating. While it…
Adiabene:
just because you believe the authority above you is good does not mean it is. Perhaps it is lying to…
DiogenesRedux:
Maria: your comment is so off the rails that it's best ignored.
