The Dispatch
The real failure of the rich young ruler
Readings: • Wis 7:7-11 • Psa 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 • Heb 4:12-13 • Mk 10:17-30 or 10:17-27 “This is the saddest story in the gospel,” [...]
Top Jesuit supports ‘LGBTQ Catholics’ event held at order’s headquarters in Rome
Features
The General House of the Society of Jesus in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News
Madrid, Spain, Oct 11, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
Father Johan Verschueren, the general counsellor and delegate for the Interprovincial Houses and Works of the Soc… […]
Is Christianity “conservative”?
Columns
Last month I pointed out serious problems with progressive Christianity, mostly having to do with the progressive rejection of transcendence. To fill out the discussion, it seems I ought to say something about conservative Christianity. [...]
Books
On the continuity of the Roman Mass: An interview with Fr. Uwe Michael Lang
The Eucharist is the source and summit, the font and apex, of the Church’s life. As a result, the Mass is at the heart of the Church, a constituent part of the daily and weekly [...]
Features
New Converts, Old Selves
In his First Letter to Timothy, St. Paul, when laying out the qualifications of a bishop, includes this telling remark: “He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit [...]
Features
Encountering Christ the Healer in MyCatholicDoctor
While the need for a more faithful, more far-reaching, and more sustainable Catholic healthcare model has long been acknowledged, especially in circumstances in which the deficiencies of secular healthcare, especially with respect to life and [...]
Chapp's Schtick
The liberal and flawed roots of tiresome synodal grievances
One of the things I have learned in my 65 years of being a Catholic is that the meaning of the term “Church reform” in the post-Vatican II era is almost always a cognate for [...]
Essay
My Father Gives Me Bread: What the LGBTQ+ community needs from the Church
Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, [...]
Features
Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit mark ninth year in the Southwest
There aren’t many who would embrace a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience to serve an often-forgotten people in one of the hottest places in the United States. But that’s just what one of the [...]
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Last month I pointed out serious problems with progressive Christianity, mostly having to do with the progressive rejection of transcendence. To fill out the discussion, it seems I ought to say something about conservative Christianity. [...] -
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A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...] -
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knowall:
Stronger Community + Stronger Care As of October 1, 2024, Ascension healthcare facilities in Southeast Michigan and the Greater Flint…
Mr Cracked Nut:
Sorry no one bought you a bilingual missel. There are plenty available for Catholics fleeing Ecumenical Novos Ordo today.
Anna:
Useful: 'Pentecostalism: Evaluating a Phenomenon' by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. https://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Protestantism/Protestantism_002.htm
