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The Dispatch

“Sex Scandal” exposes the irrational foundations, destructive nature of gender ideology

“These days we hear about ‘climate change deniers.’ But the full-blown denial of something much more obvious—a reality that both science and our lived experience [...]
Features

Pope Francis and the current crisis of leadership

The crisis of leadership in the Catholic Church is protracted, persistent, and global. It is already almost unbearably awful in its details, and has barely [...]
Clark on China

Confusion and mixed messages: A view from China

“During the past forty years, the Church in China has suffered severe persecution. . . . Please pray for the suffering Church in China!” – [...]
Analysis

The China Agreement: Beijing, Rome, and the Church’s Liberty

From the Catholic Church’s very beginning, its relationship with Caesar has been, as they say,“complicated.” Christianity has always respected legitimate state authority. It has equally [...]
The Dispatch

The Voices of Misery

Discouragement is a powerful and dangerous thing. Whenever we as Catholics revisit the Liturgical Season of Advent, we recall the powerful words of the Prophets [...]

Pope Francis and the current crisis of leadership

Features

Christopher R. Altieri September 24, 2018 18

The crisis of leadership in the Catholic Church is protracted, persistent, and global. It is already almost unbearably awful in its details, and has barely begun to be reported. What follows is neither reportage — [...]

The China Agreement: Beijing, Rome, and the Church’s Liberty

Analysis

Dr. Samuel Gregg September 23, 2018 12

From the Catholic Church’s very beginning, its relationship with Caesar has been, as they say,“complicated.” Christianity has always respected legitimate state authority. It has equally insisted, however, that there are parts of life where the [...]

Essay

“The Lord upholds my life”: Reflections on 1968, the annus horribilis

Peter M.J. Stravinskas September 22, 2018 9

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the graduation from St. Joseph High School in Toms River, New [...]

Analysis

Provisional agreement between China and Holy See raises many questions, highlights tensions

Christopher R. Altieri September 22, 2018 16

The Holy See and the People’s Republic of China announced a provisional agreement on questions of common interest on Saturday. Under the terms of the deal, Pope Francis “readmit[s] to full ecclesial communion the remaining [...]

Features

Pope Francis to visit Baltic republics, the land of Europe’s last pagans

Filip Mazurczak September 21, 2018 5

On September 22-25, Francis will become the first pope since St. John Paul II twenty-five years earlier to visit the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, a cultural and religious melting pot populated by [...]

Features

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk discusses solidarity, patriotism, power for a free Ukraine

Deborah Castellano Lubov September 20, 2018 2

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk says that a free Ukraine is strengthened by solidarity and patriotism, while noting that “patriotic feelings are neutral” and “they must be evangelized.” His Beatitude recalls the so-called revolution of dignity [...]

Essay

Padre Pio: A “Second St. Francis” for our troubled times

Father Seán Connolly September 19, 2018 6

This month marks the 100th anniversary of Padre Pio’s reception of the stigmata on September 20, 1918, and the 50th anniversary of his death on […]

Essay

Cardinal Müller: “Corruption of doctrine always brings with it the corruption of morals”

CWR Staff September 19, 2018 19

“The root of this evil is not clericalism, whatever that might be, but rejection of the truth and moral licentiousness.” Homily at the priestly ordination […]

Confusion and mixed messages: A view from China

Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. September 24, 2018 1

“During the past forty years, the Church in China has suffered severe persecution. . . . Please pray for the suffering Church in China!” – Ignatius Cardinal Gong Pinmei (June 30, 1991) The Vatican has [...]
The Two Gods

James V. Schall, S.J. September 15, 2018 4
To Rome through Mecca

James V. Schall, S.J. September 6, 2018 3