The Dispatch
A Catholic looks back on his time in the civil rights movement
“You cannot dispel evil with evil—you have to have goodness to dispel evil.” That is how Paul Bokulich, a civil rights activist who participated in [...]
Scruton: An Elegy
Essay
To those who knew him, Roger Scruton was a philosopher. Philosophy for him had little to do with that modern, tenured, and professorial guild that trades in logicism and dismisses wisdom as mere “folk psychology.” [...]
“The rubrics are our friends!” A review of Ceremonies Explained for Servers
Books
Students of the Sacred Liturgy, liturgical “practitioners,” and liturgy buffs alike will recall works by Bishop Peter J. Elliott like Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite, Liturgical Question Box, and Ceremonies of the Liturgical Year. [...]
Features
In Europe’s least Catholic nation, the Church grows amid financial hardship
With little more than 15,000 registered Catholics in an overall population of 5.5 million, Finland has the lowest Catholic percentage of any European nation. However, recent years have seen the Catholic population rise by 3-4 [...]
Books
“The Catholic Priesthood”: Benedict XVI on priestly celibacy
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the chapter “The Catholic Priesthood,” by Benedict XVI, as it appears in the book From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy, and the Crisis of the [...]
Analysis
Envy, hate, and the increase in violent anti-Semitism
While the New York Times continues to maintain that the Black Hebrew Israelites, a religious group that has been designated a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Leadership Center, is “not known for committing mass [...]
Books
The Late Hour: On Cardinal Sarah’s call to light and truth in a time of darkness
Some years ago, while on retreat with the Passionists, I listened to a Korean priest describe how he came to America. As a young man in Seoul he had money, girlfriends, a cool car, and [...]
Books
Looking into the Mirror of Islam
As anyone who’s visited Europe in the past 30 years knows, Islam is becoming more visible throughout the Old Continent. That presence isn’t as large as some believe. In 2016, the estimated Muslim population of [...]
Features
I, Nebuchadnezzar
King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue whose height was sixty cubits and whose width was six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent for [...]
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Methods of communication have huge social effects. Before the written word people lived tribally. All communication was word-of-mouth, and social order was personal, local, and traditional. Religion was myth, custom, and folklore. Among the Old [...] -
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“The Word took on our humanity and in exchange human nature was raised to the divine dignity. The second act of the exchange consists in our real and intimate participation in the divine nature of [...] -
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Tony W:
We are actually getting very close to the socialistic, anti-white, multicultural utopia King was working to bring about. And the…
Tom:
Thank you for this beautiful essay, Dr. Kirwan. Your description of Prof Scruton brings to mind Orwell, Tolkien, and Chesterton,…
Fr Peter Morello, PhD:
From what I read in Kirwan's interesting elegy a brilliant modern renaissance man whose philosophical excavations Kant here Wittgenstein there…
