The Dispatch
Opinion: The return to flourishing
With the advent of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in the fight against SARS-COV-2, the time is ripe to foster a public conversation on how [...]
What translation of Augustine’s Confessions should I read?
Books
Most scholars think that Augustine composed the Confessions in a four year period between 397 and 401, but the most compelling suggestion is that he wrote it in a two week period in 397 when [...]
Cooperation, appropriation, and vaccines relying on fetal stem cell research
Analysis
Introduction The question whether it is morally licit to produce stem cell lines from embryonic and fetal stem cells, to use these cell lines for the research on or the production of vaccines, and to [...]
Books
“Make everything count for eternity’: The story of Fr. Francis X. Lasance
St. Joseph Calasanctius, founder of the Piarist order and the patron saint of Catholic schools, once wrote, “All suffering is slight to gain Heaven.” St. Agapitus, a third-century martyr who was tortured with hot coals [...]
Features
“We few, we happy few”: On Joe Scheidler’s joyful legacy
Over the next several days, pro-lifers across the country will gather to mourn the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Thousands will join peaceful vigils outside abortion clinics or march in state capitals. Although the [...]
Carl’s Cuts
Carl’s Cuts: Bishops, Biden, Boorstein, and bold music choices
• Those who have no idea what “Carl’s Cuts” are must be forgiven, as it has been nearly three—three!—years since the last edition of this rare but, um, interesting exercise in scattershot commentary. Much has [...]
Features
2021 Walk for Life West Coast goes forward despite other walk cancellations
While many major pro-life marches across the country typically held in January are being cancelled, the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco, according to organizer Eva Muntean, appears to be going ahead. The [...]
Columns
What is analogy? A Thomistic introduction
In what follows I would like to introduce you to analogy from a Thomistic perspective. I will begin with a look at analogy in general. Then I will discuss some different kinds of analogy. And, [...]
Features
United States of America in 2021
Author’s note: This essay is a response to Carl E. Olson’s January 6, 2021 CWR editorial titled “Who are we, really, as Americans?” New Tribalism There is much confusion in America today, and our citizens [...]
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Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), made the following remark as part of a longer statement about the violence in the United States Capitol: “I [...] -
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Terence McManus:
Somewhere out there is a Priest - maybe even a Bishop but I don't think so - who has the…
Peter D. Beaulieu:
Riddle: What is the practical difference between a stable of prostitutes willing to work with backstreet voyeur pimps, and an…
Linda M:
My philosophy professor from college told me that St. Paul was taught directly by the risen Christ - for 3…
