The Dispatch
New York State Seeks to Order Nuns to Violate
New York State Seeks to Order Nuns to Violate Church Teachings on Human Sexuality Charles J. Russo The latest Blue state travesty attacking religious freedom [...]
A Realist Outline of History, Part One
Essay
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part essay. Most diagnoses of our current cultural malaise have focused on either of two narrower causes: the ideological and idealistic, or the organizational and materialistic. [...]
Mark Houck awarded seven-figure settlement in lawsuit against DOJ
Features
Mark Houck, the Pennsylvania father of nine and pro-life advocate whose 2022 arrest made national headlines, has won a seven-figure settlement in federal court. Shawn Carney, President of 40 Days for Life, announced the settlement [...]
Features
Amid war and migration, Pope Leo XIV to bring message of religious freedom to North Africa
As Pope Leo XIV prepares to embark on his apostolic journey to Africa, the shadow of regional conflict and the plight of migrants loom large over the continent’s northern shores. Algeria, the first stop of [...]
Chapp's Schtick
In gratitude for the Ordinariate
Recently, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document on the importance of the Anglican Ordinariates. The text has a long and rather awkward title: “Characteristics of the Anglican Heritage as Lived [...]
Columns
How much emphasis on politics? And to what end?
People today expect politics to give more than it can, often to the point of secular utopianism. There are two basic reasons for that. The first is a decline in transcendental faith. People need an [...]
Books
Disenchantment or Desecration? An interview with Carl R. Trueman
Carl R. Trueman is a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, as well as a prolific author. Last year, we conversed [...]
Features
The Relevance of the Resurrection
Christ’s glorified body tells us that the promise of eternal life which Jesus’s death and resurrection has opened up for us results not in obliteration […]
Features
Claire Lai: “My dad wants people to reflect on Our Savior’s suffering for us…”
Claire Lai, daughter of imprisoned Hong Kong democracy advocate and devout Catholic convert Jimmy Lai, has become a prominent advocate for the release of her 78-year-old father, believing his conviction for colluding with foreign Chinese [...]
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Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s [...] -
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LJ:
I have seen the first few episodes of this series. Very well done and worth the time to watch. David…
Dr Martin James Rice:
Well said, dear Meiron.
