The Dispatch
The King is the Context
Readings: • Jer 17:5-8 • Psa 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6 • 1 Cor 15:12, 16-20 • Lk 6:17, 20-26 “Context,” I have read, “is [...]
Questions remain about McCarrick, even as new scandals emerge
Analysis
(Rome, February 16th, 2019) The Vatican announced on Saturday that the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore, Edgar McCarrick, has been dismissed from the clerical state after being found guilty of several different canonical [...]
McCarrick laicized by Pope Francis
News
Pope Francis and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ordered this week the laicization of Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop emeritus of Washington, and a once powerful figure in ecclesiastical, diplomatic, [...]
Essay
The Problem of Pietism
Working recently on some issues in Mariology and Christology, I was struck by how little about Mary and Jesus Christ I’m hearing nowadays from Catholics, whether from ranking clergy through the media, or on the [...]
Analysis
Infidelity in Marriage and in the Priesthood
Marital infidelity Infidelity in the Sacrament of Marriage is one of the most challenging of all wounds to heal. Infidelity creates severe betrayal pain for spouses and children and, unless properly addressed, can result in [...]
Essay
Newman’s Canonization: A Summons to Truth
Once the news came out today that John Henry Newman (1801-90) would soon be made a saint, after the Vatican announced that the pope had formally approved a second miracle attributed to the great convert’s [...]
Analysis
As a McCarrick verdict looms, the Vatican still faces rough waters
The world waits on tenterhooks for the announcement—expected, according to some sources, as early as Tuesday—of a verdict (and presumably a penal sentence) in the case of the disgraced former archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore [...]
Interview
The “useless” doctor of Lourdes
“There is no other place in the Catholic world with so much suffering, and yet with so much joy, as Lourdes,” says Dr. Alessandro de […]
Essay
The Gift of Filial Adoption
The Truth of the filial adoption in Christ, which is intrinsically supernatural, constitutes the synthesis of the entire Divine Revelation. Being adopted by God as sons is always a gratuitous gift of grace, the most [...]
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In a celebration in St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco this past November, the founders, staff, and several authors recalled the many books and initiatives that have poured forth from that dynamic and innovative source [...] -
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“Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God.” — Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2113 “For the grace of God has [...] -
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Reinhard Marx – O Anti-Revolucionário:
[…] declarações à rádio alemã ‘Bavarian State Broadcasting’, em 3 de fevereiro de 2018. Ele também disse que nós católicos…
Leslie:
Nice try, but Freemasonry is also condemned by many Protestants, as well. According to whom was Galileo…
Eileen Fera:
Amen
