Essay

The Church has a Science Problem

August 25, 2022 Rachel M. Coleman 71

It has become fairly common in these post-Covid times to distinguish very carefully between science and scientism, or between science and The ScienceTM. The distinction generally goes something like this: Science is a method for […]

Analysis

Responding to the “Mass” Exodus 

August 11, 2021 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 86

The Catholic Church, along with every major Protestant denomination, has witnessed a precipitous decline in Church attendance. This slide, set off during the 1960s, has accelerated with the rapid rise of the “nones,” Americans claiming no religious affiliation. We could wonder, has the bottom fallen out with this […]

The Dispatch

Do not abandon your Mother

May 31, 2021 Dr. Edward Feser 18

In Catholic theology, the Church is not to be identified with a mere aggregate of her members, not even those members who happen to hold ecclesiastical office at any particular moment.  She is an institution […]