The Dispatch
Fake news and the post-truth culture
Although honorable, serious journalists work hard to get facts straight, the unconscious ideological bias of journalists is a real problem. […]
Pope Francis
Features
Soccer as a theological question: On the Pope’s return from Myanmar and Bangladesh
What struck me about this particular interview, given this past Saturday, was the lack of any mention of the need of sacraments, of transcendent concerns, […]
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Pope Francis’ letter to the Argentine bishops is in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis. Now what?
Canon 915 and the fundamental sacramental and moral values behind it might be forgotten, ignored, or ridiculed, but unless and until that law is revoked […]
The Dispatch
Full text of Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference from Bangladesh
In a 58-minute conversation with journalists on his return flight from Bangladesh to Rome on Saturday, Pope Francis discussed the Rohingya people of Burma, evangelization, […]
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Paul VI, Prophet
Does anyone doubt that, in the last fifty years, we have seen a profound attenuation of marital fidelity? Could anyone possibly contest that the last […]
Interview
Can economics and ecology work together?
A new book uses the work of Pope Francis to bridge the gap between economics and ecology, for the benefit of our common home. […]
Features
Beatification of Solanus Casey in Detroit marked by anticipation, joy, and thankfulness
The huge crowd at Ford Field, so quiet and reverent at times that you could hear a pin drop, clapped loudly as Cardinal Angelo Amato, […]
Features
Yes, traditional Church teaching on capital punishment is definitive
given the “hermeneutic of continuity” emphasized by Pope Benedict XVI – and given especially the teaching of the First Vatican Council that popes have no […]
Analysis
Is opposition to the death penalty Thomistic?
Given Pope Francis’s own high regard for St. Thomas (together with the historical papal approbation he has enjoyed) when it comes to doctrinal issues, we […]
The Dispatch
As the Bard might say….
I am struck by how closely the catalogue of evasion presented in As You Like It tracks the dodgeball played by those who criticize the critics of […]