The Dispatch
On Pentecost, the Spirit of Truth reversed the Tower of Babel
Readings: • Acts 2:1-12 • Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Gal 5:16-25 • Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:26-27; [...]
Diocesan Priestly Vocations in the U.S.: A New Look at the Numbers
Analysis
3,035 diocesan seminarians are preparing for priestly ordination in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, an increase of nearly 2% over the previous year, according to data published in the most recent (2025) edition [...]
The culture of death loses one—for the moment
Analysis
Good news not being thick on the ground these days, I’m delighted to note some very good news from the mother country: on April 24, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill failed to [...]
Features
Bp. Louis Tylka: “This is a great moment for the Diocese of Peoria and the Church”
Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895-1979) will be beatified and receive the title of “Blessed” at a beatification Mass on Thursday, September 24, at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Sheen was among the [...]
Essay
The Human Person in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
When Pope Leo XIV recently compared the rise of artificial intelligence to the Industrial Revolution, many immediately recognized the significance of the analogy.1 The comparison was not merely technological or economic, but deeply anthropological. Just as [...]
Analysis
The Scandalous Synod Report: A Betrayal of Trust
Note: All quotes are from the Report and annexed testimonies, unless otherwise indicated. A Synod Study Group Report (“Report”) published in early May has drawn searing criticism and predictable plaudits for its “paradigm shift” towards same-sex sexual relationships. New reports that Fr. James [...]
Analysis
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power in the Church
I continue to be puzzled by the language in the documents emerging from ecclesiastical bureaucrats. Who are these people talking to? Not “people of goodwill” around the world, nor the basic layman in the pew. [...]
Essay
The Blessed Virgin Mary and political life
Editor’s note: This essay was mistakenly attributed to the wrong author when first posted. I apologize for the error. As any reader of Catholic World Report knows very well, May is designated by the Church as the [...]
Essay
My Last Pope (Probably): Part Two of an Unusual and Very Catholic Travelogue
Editor’s note: Part One of this essay can be read here. —————— Wait, we’re not home yet, though. The journey’s not over. Less than a week later, I was back in a car. A rental [...]
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On the anniversary of his election, and with a year of the papacy under his belt, it is fair to say that Pope Leo would make, as a friend of mine has stated, a “good [...] -
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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:
Attached to that apparent neologism (indietrist) was Francis' claim that according Catholic News Agency was this explanation: "and instead, someone…
Thomas Kelly:
My understanding is that seminarians are trending far more conservative. And why not? Why would you take on the baggage…
Elias Galy:
I identify 4 things to do with the English defection from the Church and among them is not the Mass…
