The Dispatch
Frances of Rome: The homemaker who became a saint
She never held a job in her life. She never went to college, and of her three children, only one survived her. She founded a [...]
Pondering the war on Iran
Features
A recent appeal from Pope Leo XIV urged patient diplomacy amid rising tensions between Western powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran. His words reflected the Church’s perennial instinct toward peace. Through long decades of [...]
Sudanese bishops: Killings in South Sudan mark a “descent into the abyss of human depravity”
Features
Catholic bishops in Sudan and South Sudan have described the recent killings in parts of South Sudan as “a fresh descent into the abyss of human depravity.” At least 178 people were killed on Sunday, [...]
Books
Silence of the Gods chronicles the obscure paganism of eastern Europe
In the secular recounting of the history of the West, it is commonly asserted that Christianity held a many-centuries-long dominance over the peoples of Europe, stifling (supposedly) intellectual and moral development because of its superstitious [...]
Features
“Go to Mass and confession frequently”: Bishop Francis Malone reflects on faith, vocations, family
Bishop Francis Malone, 75, has served as Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, since 2020. Shreveport is the northernmost of the seven dioceses of Louisiana and serves nearly 40,000 Catholics. Shreveport borders Arkansas to its north, with [...]
Analysis
Instrumentality in Sin and Silicon
The use and proliferation of artificial intelligence technology (AI) can generate vice and, ultimately, sin. Not always, for AI is a fascinating product of human creativity that promises many practical benefits as well as harmful [...]
Essay
J.J. Scarisbrick, Life’s Happy Warrior—Requiescat in pace
John Joseph Scarisbrick, MBE, died peacefully on Saturday, February 28th, at 5:40 am with his two beloved daughters, Emma and Sarah, by his side. A towering figure in English Catholic life for over sixty years, [...]
Columns
Immigration, enforcement, and Catholics
Effectively, open borders are a bad idea. That’s true whether they result from explicit policy or from failure to enforce the law effectively. The population of the world outside the United States is about 8 [...]
Columns
Pope Leo, the Joshua Tree, and the Paschal Mystery
I recently returned from delivering a lecture at the annual Los Angeles religious education congress and, as is my custom when possible, turned it into a “bring-a-kid-to-work” adventure. This time, my middle-school daughter and I [...]
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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:
Well, in order to survive in the errant modern world, the papacy signed a concordat with Italy, and was conceded/awarded(?)…
Oscar:
Notice how this Pope remains silent about some acts if committed by Red or Green regimes, but quickly pontificates when…
Fr Peter Morello, PhD:
In principle Dr Marcus Peter presents a learned, reasonable interpretive resolution to the Iran war crisis we now face, with…
