The Dispatch

Salem and the smoke of Satan

April 6, 2022 George Weigel 42

On May 13, 1982, Pope John Paul II flew to Portugal on a pilgrimage of thanksgiving for his life having been spared the year before. At the airport welcoming ceremony, the Pope, reflecting that he’d […]

Features

Canceling Henry VIII

April 6, 2022 Joseph Pearce 68

Times change. A century ago, Henry VIII was lionized as an English patriotic icon and as one of the truly great men of history. He was praised for being highly cultured and for his love […]

The Dispatch

The souls of Katyn—and Bucha—weep

April 5, 2022 George Weigel 9

When Soviet Russia, then an ally of Nazi Germany, invaded Poland on September 17, 1939, it quickly helped complete the vivisection of the Second Poland Republic, which disappeared from the map of Europe, its eastern […]

Essay

The Hole in Your Culture

April 5, 2022 Dr. Douglas Farrow 8

In his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948), T. S. Eliot writes that “all parties live in amity, so long as they accept some common moral conventions.” While that may seem rather general and somewhat overstated, it is […]

No Picture
News Briefs

American nun abducted in Burkina Faso

April 5, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Sister Suellen Tennyson, a member of the Congregation of the Marianites of Holy Cross, who was abducted in Burkina Faso April 4, 2022. / Diocese of Kaya.

Kaya, Burkina Faso, Apr 5, 2022 / 13:08 pm (CNA).
Prayers are being sought for the safe re… […]