The Dispatch
The often silent and surprising history of devotion to Saint Joseph
Our Lord’s foster-father has always held a prominent place in the hearts of the faithful, has he not? Surely, we have always invoked the trio [...]
On four great virtues of Saint Joseph
Essay
March 19th is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. People look to the saints as models of virtue, evidence of how concrete human beings have managed to live the kind of lives God wants of us. [...]
Cardinal McElroy, homosexuality, and the repudiation of doctrine
Chapp's Schtick
Cardinal Robert McElroy, in his recent remarks to the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, stated the following: It is essential to safeguard the deposit of faith. But how do the doctrinal tradition and history of [...]
Features
On the life and legacy, faith and glories of Saint Patrick
John F. Kennedy was the first sitting American president to visit Ireland. He arrived there to much fanfare in June of 1963. At the City Hall in Cork he said: “Most countries send out oil [...]
Books
Bad Therapy addresses the question: “Why are our kids so messed up?”
Abigail Shrier does not care about conventional wisdom, nor what the gatekeepers of polite opinion think of her. Shrier is an independent journalist, and a regular contributor at the Wall Street Journal. She holds an [...]
Features
Friendship in Christ: A conversation about chastity and same-sex attraction
I met Paul Darrow in July 2018 at a Courage conference, having been invited by a friend to attend. As a married man and father, it was a little peculiar why I was there, since [...]
Columns
Thoughts on culture, nationality, and other fraught topics
Traditional aspects of identity can be difficult to make sense of. Economic and technological developments put their functions in question. Who cares about inherited connections when contract, bureaucracy, and technical training seem more to the [...]
Books
Book offers truth and hope for those trapped by transgenderism
Pope Francis recently said that gender ideology is “the ugliest danger” we face today, because it “erases differences”, and “erasing differences erases humanity”. Indeed, gender ideology has rapidly swept into the mainstream in Western societies, [...]
Features
Fiducia supplicans, ecumenical collapse, and the Coptic Orthodox Church
It’s fair to say he should have seen it coming. “He” in that sentence is Pope Francis. The thing that was coming, well, it came on Friday: a caustic statement from the Coptic Orthodox Church [...]
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Cardinal McElroy, homosexuality, and the repudiation of doctrine - JP2 Catholic Radio:
[…] The entire LGBTQ movement is a counter-religion, which accounts for why it is held with deep religious fervor and…
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This was a lovely and thoughtful essay. So little is said about Saint Joseph, and too little is made of…
