The Dispatch
Against cosmic melancholia
On September 5, 1977, “Voyager 1,” built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Titan IIIE rocket. It’s still going, [...]
Why did a priest write a novel about the Mafia, Confession, and Providence?
Books
Art can be a tremendously effective means of communicating theological truths. We have seen this over the centuries and across millennia, and it is no less true today. In recent years, there has been a [...]
Napa Institute Summer Conference 2024 to focus on “What it Means to be Human”
Features
The 14th annual Napa Institute Summer Conference will be held at The Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa, California, from July 24 to 28, 2024. The annual event features presentations by prominent Catholic speakers, daily [...]
Columns
A good biopic is hard to find, but Wildcat artfully delivers
In the new movie Wildcat, a feverish and immobile Mary Flannery O’Connor, played by Maya Hawke, asks her parish priest, played by Liam Neeson, whether he has ever read James Joyce. He admits he has not, [...]
Chapp's Schtick
The population of hell and the limitations of human freedom
With the promulgation of the latest document from the DDF (Dignitas Infinita) much focus has been on the use of the word “Infinite” in the title as a qualifier for the ontological nature of human [...]
Features
Whodunnit? The Strange Case of Shakespeare’s Will
William Shakespeare is a mystery. What we know about the facts of his life is outweighed by what we don’t know. His life can be likened metaphorically to a jigsaw puzzle in which most of [...]
Books
Toward a Confessing Church
Note: Earlier this spring, Ignatius Press published “True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church.” The author delivered these remarks at the University of Dallas on April 19. I’d like these comments to [...]
Editorial
Defending Rupnik’s art is possible, but also scandalous and insulting
A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...]
Features
There is no going back, just going through
“I just want to go back to before,” says FBI Agent Olivia Dunham to Special Agent-in-Charge Phillip Broyles in the pilot episode of the science fiction series, Fringe (2008-13). Dunham is a good agent who found [...]
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In the new movie Wildcat, a feverish and immobile Mary Flannery O’Connor, played by Maya Hawke, asks her parish priest, played by Liam Neeson, whether he has ever read James Joyce. He admits he has not, [...] -
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A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...] -
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James H Dobbins, PhD:
The canonization of Pope Paul VI was equally problematic, and maybe even more so. He was canonized on the basis…
Will:
If people eschew contraception, fine and dandy. But do not try to force others to do so. What next, a…
mrscracker:
It's not as if contraceptives aren't available everywhere you turn & especially at our public health depts where you can…
