The Dispatch
Mythology and what it means to be human
What does it mean to be human? A simple enough question, right? Until one tries to answer it, or pays careful attention to the host [...]
Justice Scalia’s Faith
Essay
On Antonin Scalia’s first day of Catholic education, an expatriate of the New York City public-school system arriving as a freshman at Xavier High School in Manhattan in September 1949, he beheld a most unusual [...]
St. Anselm: Sounding the charge for religious freedom
Features
With the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Congress prohibited “the federal government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion unless it demonstrates that doing so both furthers a compelling governmental interest and represents [...]
Essay
The Resurrection, the Eucharist, and the Emmaus story
In the midst of the Easter season, we re-read the twenty-fourth chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, the Emmaus story, my favorite passage in the New Testament. On Easter night, two lonely, frustrated disciples of Jesus [...]
Features
Pope Leo listens to harrowing tales of Cameroon’s war victims
The warmth of the Pope’s reception in Bamenda, which is the epicenter of Cameroon’s separatist violence, was palpable, even while the underlying trauma of the region was impossible to ignore. Archbishop Andrew Nkea welcomed the [...]
Books
The Secure Bond Marriage Needs Today
In 1949, Ida Friederike Görres wrote, “That which is unnatural … people say, is indissolubility.” She disagreed. By 1971, when she sent her final book, What Binds Marriage Forever (CUA Press, 2026), to the publisher, she saw [...]
Essay
A Realist Outline of History, Part Two
Editor’s note: Part One of this essay can be read here. The First Apocalypse: The Blessings of Anarchy In the fifth century, the Western Church suffered its First Apocalypse, losing its demographic race to revive [...]
Essay
An Open Letter to Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ
Your Eminence: In an article recently published by a major German Catholic website, you suggested that the question of whether the Church can ordain women has not been definitively settled: “I cannot imagine how a [...]
Essay
Is the war in Iran just?
It has been said that the first casualty of war is truth. I wonder whether we should say instead that the first casualty of war is clear reasoning, even on the part of intelligent and [...]
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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 [...] -
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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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ND:
If he did, that was not the first time he made this statement. https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/03/04/could-a-pope-be-in-schism/
Tom Reynolds:
Yes I love the beauty of its light. Here Jesus is seen as the hound of heaven. Is it not…
Oscar:
We would not have a Catholic Church today if this man had been Pope during the sieges of Vienna, or…
