The Dispatch
Presidential censures and commonsense
“The Senate is no longer a place for any decent man,” mourned Senator Henry Clay, January 1837. This was his judgment following a Senate vote [...]
Full text of Cardinal Mueller’s analysis on the working document of the Amazon synod
Essay
Vatican City, Jul 16, 2019 / 09:19 am (CNA).- Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, who was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 and 2017, presented an analysis with a series of [...]
The practical “do’s” and “don’ts” of vocation discernment
Interview
Jesus Christ calls all of us to be his disciples. But how are we each called to live out that discipleship? What will discipleship look like for each of us? How can we surrender ourselves [...]
Essay
Reflections on authority in liturgy today
Editor’s note: This essay was presented in a slightly different form as a plenary address to the Colloquium of the Church Music Association of America in Philadelphia on July 3, 2019. Introduction In some Anglican [...]
Features
“Without Logos, the West is over.” A conversation with Dr. Samuel Gregg
Samuel Gregg, Research Director at the Acton Institute, is the author of numerous essays and 15 books. He has written works on political economy, economic history, the papacy, ethics in finance, and natural law theory; [...]
Books
Heaven, Hell, C.S. Lewis, and Hans Urs von Balthasar
This partial transcript is from the FORMED Book Club discussion of Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know by Michael Barber, July 8, 2019. Participants were Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder and editor of Ignatius Press; [...]
Essay
Clericalism and the disappearance of popular devotions
Steadily they walked, well-dressed, serious, each carrying a staff or a lit candle about a meter long, even the children. Over the two hours or so that we watched, there were hundreds of them—men and [...]
Essay
Seeing sacramentally in a pornified culture
For several years of my life, for several days a week, for several hours a day, I would look at people posing completely naked right in front of me in every position imaginable. Some were [...]
Features
Stranger Things 3: Plenty of thrills, but also loss of heart
[Editor’s note: Minor spoilers alert!] Season 3 of Stranger Things ends with an apology for itself. The closing soliloquy on change, growing up and moving on doubles as a self-conscious excuse for the show’s decline. [...]
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The Church has given the title “doctor” to some of her saints. In Latin doctor means “teacher” and the doctors of the Church are teachers of a very special sort. Pius X calls them “our [...] -
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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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Bruce Willman:
Have Kevin and Karen been seen in the same room?ar
Fr Peter Morello:
Let’s look at it this way Paul. Logical sequence, We pray what we believe means Belief in Apostolic Tradition is…
J.P.G.:
' To Thee do we cry poor banished children of Eve ..' so goes the prayer, in the deep…
