The Dispatch
The legal and moral genius of St. Thomas More
A new book examines the life and mind of a man who is today much revered—and misunderstood. […]
Articles by Gregory J. Sullivan
The Dispatch
“Fundamentally a missionary”: New book captures Bishop Barron’s evangelistic vision
A review of To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age, by Bishop Robert Barron, with John L. Allen, Jr. […]
Books
A Christian Future or a Pagan One?
“Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.” — Matthew 25:45 R.R. Reno is, of course, the estimable successor to […]
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Bishop Barron and the Vibrant Paradoxes of the Catholic Faith
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Bishop […]
General
The story of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, an extraordinary Christian man
The death of Father Richard John Neuhaus in 2009 constituted an immediate and irreparable loss for American political and religious life. He brought Christianity into the public square with unique intellectual rigor, cultural erudition, and […]
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Revisiting Pope Leo XIII and Reclaiming Catholic Social Doctrine
Anthony Esolen, a professor of English at Providence College and—among a multitude of other scholarly and intellectual accomplishments—a translator of Dante, is one of the most appealing Catholic thinkers of our time. He writes on […]
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Skewing Scalia
Bruce Allen Murphy’s new biography of the most important jurist of our time, Scalia: A Court of One, has already passed through a characteristically rigorous critique at the “Bench Memos” blog at National Review Online […]
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The Story of the West: Who, Why, and How
The impressive book by Baylor University social scientist Rodney Stark, How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity, continues the prolific scholar’s fascinating project of bringing social-science rigor (a phrase that […]