The Dispatch
What Exactly is Easter?
I. As a general principle, an honest man will want to know what something is, or is said to be, before he decides whether he [...]
Claire Lai: “My dad wants people to reflect on Our Savior’s suffering for us…”
Features
Claire Lai, daughter of imprisoned Hong Kong democracy advocate and devout Catholic convert Jimmy Lai, has become a prominent advocate for the release of her 78-year-old father, believing his conviction for colluding with foreign Chinese [...]
To Dwell in the Side of Christ
Essay
In his Introduction to the Devout Life, Saint Francis de Sales recounts the following story about the fourteenth-century saint Elzear of Sabran: When the blessed Elzear, Count of the Provence of Arian, had been long separated [...]
Essay
The Easter Triduum and Three Essentials
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son [...]
Essay
Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part Two
Editor’s note: You can read Part One of this essay here. IV The best way to describe how matrimony and the family animate Leo’s magisterial approach to the social question is to speak of their [...]
Features
Opinion: Does God hear the prayers of warmongers?
Many are abuzz about Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily. In order to provide some context, let’s consider what Pete Hegseth prayed at the Pentagon last Wednesday, March 25th. In leading a Pentagon Christian service, [...]
Essay
Holy Week in Song and Verse
When I was confirmed in the Church during graduate school, I would not have said, as many other converts do, that my conversion was initiated by the beauty of Catholic art and music. To be [...]
Essay
Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part One
Editor’s note: The following piece is the first part of a two-part essay. I In 1846, John Henry Newman traveled to Rome to see if he could arrange to undertake seminary studies for the Catholic priesthood. [...]
Features
Africa’s second exodus
When reports confirmed that thousands of young Africans had been lured into fighting for Russia in its war on Ukraine, the world reacted with shock and outrage. For Fr. Augustine Anwuchie, however, it was not [...]
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It’s no secret that we are inhabiting a moment in which digitalization is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace. Day by day, screens, algorithms, and infrastructures of virtual reality are becoming the dominant frame [...] -
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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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Matthew:
Perhaps the struggle is simply due to a fundamental misunderstanding of what suffering actually is.
Peter D. Beaulieu:
We read: "In 1988, researchers traced it to medieval origins around 1350, casting doubt on whether it was the actual…
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Overt attempts to rehabilitate Francis followed by passive-aggressive sniping at pre revolution Catholics. How’s “unity” working out for you?
