The Dispatch
The Holy Cross is an invitation to faith, to life, to love
On the Readings for Saturday, September 14th, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross […]
Conversions and Receptions into the Church: A Look at the Numbers
Analysis
In 1937, Fr. Edward Betowski, a professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York, published Spurs to Conversion, a compilation of weekly reflections encouraging priests to cultivate a missionary spirit in themselves and in their parishioners. Lamenting [...]
Conservative Bishops, Liberal Results
Features
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a new feature category titled “From the Archives,” which will, as the name indicates, be pieces from CWR’s extensive archives. It seems fitting that this first essay, [...]
Chapp's Schtick
On the urgent need to recognize and reject religious relativism
Way back in olden times, when I was still a professor of theology, one of the most ubiquitous attitudes amongst the students was that it does not matter which religion one practiced since “all religions [...]
Essay
Conversion Story: Coda—The Year of Castles and Roses
“Revival” is not a common word in the Episcopalian lexicon, but the spiritual excitement that permeated All Angels’ Church under the Rev. Martyn Minns may fairly be called a revival. There were conflicts and failures, [...]
Editorial
The Future of Synodality
There are no first, second or third-class Catholics, no.… Please, let us get used to listening to each other, to talking, not cutting our heads off for a word. To listen, to discuss in a [...]
Essay
The Gospel as birth and face
In this year of the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope St. John Paul II, it seems fitting to reflect anew on the missionary character of Christian faith. Against the backdrop of the crumbling [...]
Columns
Why is there so much political hatred today?
Why is there so much political hatred today? It’s not just online discussion, where it can seem that everybody hates everybody. Nor is it just the Church, where the Francis papacy has heightened differing positions [...]
Features
Sept. 7th Rosary Rally at Notre Dame will mark 75th anniversary of 1950 Rally
Fr. David S. Marcham is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston who serves as the Vice Postulator and Guild Director for the Cause of Venerable Patrick Peyton. On September 7th, at 1:30 EDT, the University of [...]
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Francis had a history of embracing process theology, including the contention that an incomplete God is in the process of…
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LJ:
American colonists were treated very badly by the British, who objected to the colonists wanting to be treated like the…
