The Dispatch
Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Where Is That Damning Dossier? – “This week, with the publication of his new book, Pope Francis has added one important link to the chain [...]
What way to a better world?
Columns
If we want our social and political efforts to be useful, their direction should depend on the way the world is going. But people aren’t good at reading the signs of the times. As Yogi [...]
A Pillar of Salt for Our Age
Analysis
In 1975, Father Richard Ginder, a priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, published Binding with Briars. The book, though revolting at times, sheds more light on the clerical sexual abuse scandal than perhaps any other book [...]
Analysis
The Cardinal in DC, the Sister in Rome, and the Pope’s new law
Two appointments made big news out of the Vatican this week, one to the leadership of the US capital see and the other to the top spot at the Vatican department tasked with overseeing religious [...]
Essay
“Who’s to say?” On Faith, Reason, and Being Subject to Truth
It is a common view that in social situations, one ought to avoid discussions that concern religion and politics. Such an injunction has its roots in fundamental confusions about judgments concerning right and wrong, good [...]
Features
The straight line of split morality from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter
History is often burdened by hoary myths that take on a life of their own, independently of what “really happened,” in order to establish a certain narrative. We’ll likely hear one such myth this April, [...]
Chapp's Schtick
On the obsessive grievances and perpetual rupturing of liberal “reformers”
America Magazine recently ran an article by Mary McAuliffe entitled “Women and LGBTQ Catholics are paying the price for church unity” (Jan. 2, 2024). The essay is completely unremarkable except insofar as it underscores and [...]
Features
As the Augustine Institute grows, it remains focused on its founding mission
In April 2024, Augustine Institute announced its plans to move its operations to a new campus in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. The educational and evangelization apostolate has been based in Denver since its founding [...]
Essay
Taiwan, China, and the Regina Caeli
One way to meet folks and make friends abroad in a strange city: take mass transit, get lost on the subway, look confused, and ask for help. I must confess it didn’t work some years [...]
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The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...] -
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Laura Ann Albright:
Love the pope but wish the knights of columbus would evolve and be more progressive
John Bilbee:
Well yes that's the narrative, but not only "duped" on Rupnik because apparently Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict…
Peter D. Beaulieu:
From Anne, we read: "Add to this that an emotional enmeshment “mother – son” always includes manipulation, deception, lies –…
