The Dispatch
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 [...]
Catholic Social Thought and the Corpus Leoninum
Essay
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 [...]
True memory, real history, and Western civilization
Essay
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 [...]
Columns
9/11 Revisited
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, [...]
Essay
Unlearned lessons of 9/11, a quarter-century later
Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon in the name of deranged religious convictions, I was at dinner in the papal apartment with John Paul [...]
Features
New report says over 3000 Christians killed in Nigeria in first 8 months of 2026
A sobering new report claims that no fewer than 3,083 Christians were killed and 3,193 abducted in attacks allegedly carried out by jihadist groups in Nigeria between January and August this year. The report, released [...]
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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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