The Dispatch
How the Eucharist should shape who we are and what we do
In addition to its religious significance as the octave of Christmas and Solemnity of the Mother of God, New Year’s Day has become a time [...]
Chesterton, Retirement, and Abnegation
Essay
I do not intend in these remarks to look at Chesterton in his retirement, for the simple fact that he never seems to have retired. He finished writing his autobiography a few weeks before his [...]
The New Saints and Blesseds of 2025
Features
A 2005 curial document notes that “canonization is the supreme glorification by the Church of a Servant of God raised to the honors of the altar with a decree declared definitive and preceptive for the whole Church, [...]
Books
What It Means To Be Protestant is mostly about not being Catholic
What is Protestantism? It seems a straightforward thing to answer. Protestantism is the affirmation of Scripture as the ultimate, unparalleled authority of Christian faith and practice. Protestantism is the “five solae” of the sixteenth-century Reformation: Sola Scriptura, Solus [...]
Essay
The Smiling Face of Erasure
I was recently interviewed on CTV, Canada’s national broadcaster, about Pope Leo’s start in the papacy. The interviewer asked a question that I have been asked in scores of interviews about the papacy of either [...]
Features
A Church that goes out to the hungry and brokenhearted
My first ministry job was teaching high school theology, and in my first year, I was assigned a semester-long morality class for an unruly group of sophomores. It was a good Catholic school, but, like [...]
Features
Nigerian Christians react to U.S. bombings of ISIS targets
The Trump administration has followed through on an earlier warning to use military force to protect Nigerian Christians if the Nigerian government failed to do so. On Christmas Eve, the U.S. military bombed ISIS targets [...]
Essay
“God from God, Light from light, true God from true God …”
Editor’s note: This homily was preached, in slightly different form, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan, on Christmas 2025. ————- Let me set the stage for our reflection on this glorious Solemnity of [...]
Features
Nigerian Christians again face threats of deadly attacks during Christmas
A US-based humanitarian organization has issued a grave warning that armed groups are planning coordinated attacks against Christian communities in northern Nigeria during the Christmas period. The non-profit organization, Equipping the Persecuted, provides essential support [...]
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I. Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will [...] -
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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...] -
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knowall:
your last sentence - spoiled kid syndrome might be, but made me laugh being one of the younger of a…
Dr.Cajetan Coelho:
She served her people with dedication and distinction. Respectful farewell to former Bangladesh PM Begum Khaleda Zia.
