The Dispatch
Finding the truth of sobriety in the lives of fictional characters
On October 6, my new book, Staying Sober One Story at a Time, will be released by Scepter Publishers. The book is an account of [...]
Evangelization and Blessed Fulton J. Sheen
Essay
Editor’s note: The following homily was delivered on September 27, 2026, at the Oratory of Saints Gregory and Augustine, St. Louis, within the celebration of the Beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. The most important [...]
Baptized by Fulton Sheen: Bishop Barres reflects on new blessed’s holiness and mission
Features
This week, I traveled to St. Louis with thousands of other Catholics from throughout the country for the Beatification Mass of Fulton Sheen. It was deeply uplifting to see so many people gathered together who, [...]
Features
Nearly 50,000 celebrate the beatification of Midwest native Fulton J. Sheen
During the growing season, visitors driving along country roads on their way to Peoria gaze out on oceans of field corn—the green stalks sporting golden tassels—and the occasional open pasture spotted with cows. Young Fulton [...]
Features
A ‘porter’ who led others to Christ: Abp Fulton Sheen declared ‘blessed’
Pope Leo XIV announced Blessed Sheen’s feast day will be on Dec. 9, the anniversary of his death. […]
Essay
Contemplating the astounding power of Padre Pio’s ministry, gifts, and trials
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) was famous during his lifetime. He wasn’t a brilliant theologian, an innovative religious founder, a martyr, a bishop, a cardinal, or a pope. He was a Capuchin Franciscan friar who [...]
Essay
How the Mass helped to shape Western civilization
There is no shortage of recent literature across the political spectrum warning of the profound cultural crisis confronting the West and the erosion of the moral assumptions that once bound society together. Douglas Murray writes [...]
Analysis
History is not enough: Women deacons and the unity of holy orders
In four recent articles, Phyllis Zagano has renewed her long-standing argument for admitting women to the ordained diaconate. Writing in America, The Tablet, Religion News Service, and Commonweal, she presses a consistent claim: the historical [...]
Books
Cosmic Covenant is a robust, orthodox presentation of a theology of creation
When my family lived in Panama, we had both garbage and recycling collection. The running joke was that the “recycling” was a charade, and that the trucks were taking everything to the same landfill—only about [...]
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Editor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. James V. Schall was published originally in slightly different form at Ignatius Insight on September 8, 2006, to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, [...] -
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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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