The Dispatch
Spiraling down in Speyer
Speyer is a charming city on the west bank of the Rhine River. Its splendid medieval core is dominated by a magnificent 11th-century cathedral, the [...]
The WNBA is the Reductio ad Absurdum of Trans Ideology
Analysis
The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has perhaps done more to demonstrate the absurdity of transgender ideology than any American public institution. And it has done so through its endorsement of that very ideology. Over the [...]
Nigerian bishop: Africa is not immune to what caused the decline of the Church in Europe
Features
While churches across Western Europe continue to close their doors, repurpose their buildings, or grapple with widespread apathy, Nigeria is experiencing a Catholic awakening that defies global trends. With an estimated 35 million Catholics and [...]
Essay
On Abortion Pills, Wastewater, and Public Trust
One scandal of the COVID era was the alliance between government and some social media platforms to suppress doubt and dissent about the regime—especially compulsory vaccinations—to control the pandemic. A casualty has been the erosion [...]
Essay
Anthony Fauci, his beloved client, and the bureaucratic regime
In the late 1980s, while I was finishing my PhD at Claremont Graduate School, President Ronald Reagan appointed my thesis advisor, Dr. William Barclay Allen, to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. A year [...]
Features
“I think we’re poised for an amazing time in the Church.” An interview with Bp. Gerard W. Battersby
Bishop Gerard W. Battersby, 66, has served as bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, since 2024. He grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He and his brother, Chris, are twins and were the youngest [...]
Editorial
Reading Saint Paul in a Time of Synodality
“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...]
Books
Not just another book about abortion: An Interview with Stephen Bujno
Stephen Bujno holds a PhD in philosophy and an MA in philosophical anthropology, the field that grounds his new book’s central argument. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of philosophy at Villanova University, where he [...]
Features
The Odyssey is proof that old things still matter—maybe more than ever
Unless you’ve been living in a cave blocked by a rock (and if so, maybe get out of there), you’ve heard about, and likely have already seen, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. The adaptation of Homer’s three-thousand-year-old [...]
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“But Jesus remained silent”— Matthew 26:63 Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), affirmed the doctrine of the social kingship of Christ. He thereby kicked back against the tide of the modern political [...] -
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“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...] -
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