The Dispatch
Oregon officials back off ‘gender ideology mandate’ for mom seeking to adopt
The legal settlement ensures that Jessica Bates’ religious views will not be a factor in determining whether she can adopt children. […]
The Evangelization Power of Rome
Essay
In centuries past, the great missionaries of the Church—many now canonized saints—traveled to the far ends of the earth to bring Christ to those the Church once called pagans. The dangers were not exaggerated. Months [...]
Light after an eclipse: An interview with attorney and translator Andrew Greenwell
Books
The Carthusians are all but unknown—both inside and outside the Catholic Church—and they likely want to keep it that way. If anyone has heard of these sons of St. Bruno (their founder), it’s through Chartruese, [...]
Essay
A Bishop Who Leads
Virginia voters are being asked to support two changes in the state constitution. Both are on the far frontier of the sexual revolution. And Bishop Michael Francis Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington is leading [...]
Essay
Catholic Social Thought and the Corpus Leoninum
Recently, while researching an article on Augusto Del Noce, I came across a quoted paragraph from Etienne Gilson that led me down a train of thought that might interest others. The quote preceded Del Noce’s [...]
Essay
True memory, real history, and Western civilization
Some weeks ago, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation demonstrated exactly why historical memory requires deliberate protection when its internal guidance instructed journalists to avoid independently describing 9/11 as a “terrorist attack.” This followed a decades-old CBC [...]
Books
A Liberal Revolution masterfully chronicles post-conciliar confusion and decline
There are books one reads in a single sitting, index finger atremble to turn to the next page. Hanael Bianchi’s A Liberal Revolution is such a book. For Catholics who were subjected to the liturgy and [...]
Essay
Saying “We will never forget” while forgetting what can happen again
“Not that remorse did not oppose temptation; A little she strove, and much repented, And whispering ‘I will ne’er consent’—consented.” — Lord George Gordon Byron, Don Juan This is not a column about remembering September 11, [...]
Essay
A Catholic Reading of the Little House on the Prairie Reboot
I’m convinced the 2026 reboot of Little House on the Prairie on Netflix arrives just at the right teaching moment—a time when American culture is saturated with debates about femininity, domestic life, and the meaning of home. The tradwife [...]
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Editor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. James V. Schall was published originally in slightly different form at Ignatius Insight on September 8, 2006, to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, [...] -
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“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...] -
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LJ:
Its very funny that you think cutting govt bloat is "destroying the lively-hoods of civil servants", as if govt jobs…
The Pitchfork Rebel:
A ditch or a cliff is a "new direction".
Gerard:
This is why surrogacy should be outlawed.
