The Dispatch
Is the Church dying or reviving?
What is going on in the Church in America? Is She singing a swan song, or is She rising again from the ashes like the [...]
Sex and the Unity of the Catholic Church
Essay
Faced with a German Church that may be, at this point, a schismatic ecclesial body, Pope Leo XIV made remarks on April 22nd that stirred controversy and debate. On April 20th, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of [...]
The SSPX is now on a clear and direct collision course with Rome
Chapp's Schtick
The Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Fr. Davide Pagliarani, has recently given a lengthy interview in which he lays out his case for why the Society is justified in defying [...]
Analysis
On Colorado’s continuing assault on religious liberty
If it’s a day that ends in “y,” the State of Colorado has probably passed another law hostile to free speech and religious liberty. And the state’s persistent animus toward Christianity has been keeping the [...]
Books
A new history of the unrecognized martyrs of the Christian militia orders
When it comes to saints who were also soldiers, the list is relatively short. There is St. Louis IX, the medieval king of France, who fundraised and led two crusades against the Muslim kingdom in [...]
Essay
Seeing Woman through the Eyes of Gertrud von le Fort
Editor’s note: This essay was delivered as an address on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at the Symposium on Transforming Culture, Benedictine College, Atchison, KS. “The hand that rocks the cradle”, “The power behind the throne”—both [...]
Editorial
Tenuous unity and problematic blessings in an age of bourgeois love
“Indeed it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity.” — Saint Augustine, Confessions (quoted in CCC 2340) “I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by [...]
Features
“You are not alone,” Pope Leo XIV assures prisoners during visit to Batá prison
(CWR, Yaoundé) On Wednesday, Pope Leo XVI visited a prison in Equatorial Guinea’s capital city of Batá, and offered words of comfort to inmates who might be tempted to view their lives as worthless. Under [...]
Books
“God is alive and well in the modern medical center”
The medical profession naturally involves encountering people at their most vulnerable and dealing with some of the most profound suffering that humans face. But it can also be an experience of profound joy, as when [...]
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The Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Fr. Davide Pagliarani, has recently given a lengthy interview in which he lays out his case for why the Society is justified in defying [...] -
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“Indeed it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity.” — Saint Augustine, Confessions (quoted in CCC 2340) “I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by [...] -
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The Pitchfork Rebel:
At least I have an argument. Detract much?
Edward J Baker:
You apparently don't. Because flippant, dumb, and heretical remarks by popes are not in any way "magisterial."
