The Dispatch
Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., has died at the age of 91
Fr. James V. Schall, the prolific and much-beloved Jesuit, professor and author, died earlier today. His family states that “he was comfortable and at peace” [...]
Notre-Dame and the fragility of civilization
Essay
We will assign different proportions to divine intervention and human ingenuity, but that is a mechanical issue: Providence has decreed that Notre Dame cathedral be safe for the time being. Fire did not destroy her [...]
Easter in Jail: The Travesty of the Pell Case
Features
In December 2018, Cardinal George Pell, former Archbishop of Sydney and head of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, was convicted of “historic sexual abuse” in a court in Melbourne, Australia, where Pell served as [...]
Essay
“We live in a devastated age”: Reflections from Guardini on being “Lost in Chaos”
In 1933 Romano Guardini published a small monograph consisting of three lectures around the subject of conscience. It was originally titled Das Gute, das Gewissen und die Sammlung – the good, conscience and inner composure. [...]
Books
Cardinal Sarah and the Sunset of the West
Sometimes the most perceptive observers of a society are outsiders. Perhaps the best analysis of America, for example, was penned by the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville following his travels throughout the United States between [...]
Books
Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong: Fighter, Teacher, Risk-Taker
Cardinal Joseph Zen, the retired bishop of Hong Kong, has a poignant story in his new book, titled For Love of My People I Will Not Remain Silent: On the Situation of the Church in [...]
Editorial
Editorial: Benedict XVI’s essay is both insightful and incomplete
Reaction to the unexpected release of a lengthy text—almost exactly 6,000 words in all—by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, titled “The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse”, has been both swift and polarized. Some have [...]
Essay
Full text of Benedict XVI: ‘The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse’
The following is a previously unpublished essay from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: On February 21 to 24, at the invitation of Pope Francis, the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences gathered at the Vatican to [...]
Essay
Seeing Abortion
We stand at a pivotal point in the great moral debate over abortion in our country—not because new arguments have emerged, but rather because laws so breathtaking in their barbarism have been passed, and a [...]
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Lent is a time of retreat and reflection. That can mean very different things for different people at different times in their lives. But it always means stepping back from daily preoccupations and looking at [...] -
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Reaction to the unexpected release of a lengthy text—almost exactly 6,000 words in all—by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, titled “The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse”, has been both swift and polarized. Some have [...] -
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Lawrence Hall:
"Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and make perpetual Light to shine upon him."
Joseph:
Rosica is not a Salesian (SDB) but a Basilian (CSB). Why not a resignation/early retirement? They…
Leon Berton:
Requiescat in pace Christi.
