The Dispatch
The Incarnation and Three Metaphysical Paradoxes
Readings: • Zech 9:9-10 • Psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 • Rom 8:9, 11-13 • Matt 11:25-30 The literary critic Hugh Kenner, in Paradox in Chesterton (Sheed [...]
“America on Trial”: A Catholic World Report Symposium
America on Trial
Ignatius Press recently published Robert R. Reilly’s America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding. It is, as the subtitle indicates, a response to recent books and essays arguing that the moral, social, and political [...]
“Catholics, start reading the Bible!”: An interview with Fr. Timothy Peters
Features
Fr. Timothy Peters, S.T.D., is an assistant professor of biblical studies at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California, which serves the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as well as other dioceses, including the Diocese of Orange, for [...]
Features
Misdirected religion and the motives of the “Black Lives Matter” movement
The late Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020), perhaps the greatest conservative philosopher of our age (though he often remarked that there was not much competition around), was my mentor. Scruton was my teacher during my Master’s [...]
Essay
A Catholic response to racism
“Sooner or later, all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.” The Reverend [...]
Features
Will Nothing Good Happen Here?
As quoted by Andrew Stuttaford in a recent review in the Wall Street Journal of three new books about the Third Reich, Ernst Lubtisch, the distinguished Hollywood director and German-Jewish emigré, replied to a question [...]
Features
Pope Francis ‘appreciates’ the ‘Synodal Way,’ says German bishop after private audience
Vatican City, Jun 27, 2020 / 11:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis “appreciates” the German Church’s “Synodal Way,” the president of the German bishops’ conference said after meeting with the pope Saturday. In a statement following [...]
Essay
An alien census in a lonely cosmos
Two British astrophysicists at the University of Nottingham, England, Tom Westby and Christopher J. Conselice, recently sifted their way through the Milky Way and discovered, they estimate, no more than thirty-six alien civilizations are presently [...]
Special Report
Madison’s Days of Rage
MADISON, Wisconsin — A night of rioting by Black Lives Matter supporters upset over the arrest of one of the group’s activists started just hours after the bat-wielding man allegedly accosted a 40-year-old woman praying [...]
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Last month I noted that modern people are impressed by the power of technology, industrial organization, and the managerial state. The resulting emphasis on man’s power over things has led people to view the social [...] -
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What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, [...] -
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J.P.G.:
Thank you , also for introducing another good author , from the treasure chest of Ignatius press - esp. for…
Robert Fastiggi:
God bless Bishop Daniel Flores for condemning this ethnic slur against state senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. of Texas. Bishop Flores…
mrscracker:
Tom Laney, I think most people want to see everyone employed in a decent job, preferably one that provides a…
