The Dispatch
Extra, extra! News and views for March 29, 2023
A Falsely Happy Story – “Adam and Eve after the Pill, Revisited, closes a body of work that’s occupied a lot of my attention for [...]
Cardinal Hollerich: There’s ‘space to expand’ Church teaching on all-male priesthood
Features
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, speaking at a press conference in the Vatican on Aug. 26, 2022. / Vatican News YouTube Channel
Rome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the archbishop of Luxembourg an… […]
The goals and lies of the Polish Left’s smear campaign against John Paul II
Features
“A half-truth is worse than a lie and a half.” This Yiddish proverb perfectly describes the dishonest claims that the future Pope St. John Paul II covered up sexual abuse as Archbishop of Krakow (1962-1978), [...]
Analysis
The law-free zone of human sexuality and the Church today
Examining the various components of the philosophy driving the proponents of the sexual revolution, as well as many Catholic progressives, a good summary of their various proposals is simply this: the entire realm of human [...]
Features
Permanent version of Vos estis lux mundi meaningless without will to use it
Pope Francis issued a permanent version of his signature reform law, Vos estis lux mundi, on Saturday. First promulgated in 2019 as a three-year experiment, Vos estis purported to facilitate the investigation of abuse and [...]
Columns
Musings on ChatGPT, change, and the creeping memory hole
For years, my wife and I have collected thousands of DVD’s, LP’s, CD’s, and of course books, and therefore we have had little choice but to decorate with them too. We hate clutter, but we’re [...]
Features
Transgender ideology makes inroads in Archdiocese of Guadalajara
A male-to-female “transgender” drag queen performer in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico has received a new baptismal certificate affirming his female self-identity, with the approval of an official of the city’s Catholic archdiocese. The issuance [...]
Features
Take a Lenten pilgrimage to Santiago—at the movies
• Get tickets to Santiago: The Camino Within Like many people, I first learned about the Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, from the 2011 movie The Way. The Camino is a network [...]
Essay
Conscience and leadership in the lives of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher
Editor’s note: The following 2023 Chelsea Lecture was delivered by Most Reverend Thomas John Paprocki at Chelsea Academy, in Front Royal, Virginia, on February 7, 2023. It is good to be with you to deliver the [...]
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Back in January 2006, I wrote a post titled “Did I read the same encyclical as The New York Times?”, about the Grey Lady’s faintly funny and quite clueless reaction to Benedict XVI’s Deus Caritas [...] -
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Elias Galy:
St. Paul's conversion was the working of grace of God. A do-it-yourself spirituality would amount Pelagianism. Basing it on accounts…
LJ:
Thanks, I'll skip it. In the Catholic church 3 year olds are thankfully not permitted Communion ( they can hardly…
Brian Young:
A class act was Congressman, John Steven McGroarty! Yes indeedy do dah.
