The Dispatch
St. Jerome and Protestantism
St. Jerome, whose feast day is September 30th, is known by Catholics for several things. Many know the fourth-century priest as responsible for the Vulgate, [...]
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Books
Christopher Shannon is too modest. In his introduction to American Pilgrimage, he concedes that his telling of the American Catholic story is “selective” and that “many comprehensive histories of the material I cover already exist [...]
When and how should priests and deacons preach on abortion?
Essay
Here in Michigan, where I live and serve, voters have a duty this Election Day (November 8) to defend unborn children from being killed in untold numbers by the enshrinement of nearly unlimited abortion as [...]
Books
New book introduces readers to central focus of von Balthasar’s theology
Richard Clements, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University, is the author of The Meaning of the World Is Love: Selected Texts from Hans Urs von Balthasar with Commentary (Ignatius Press, 2022). [...]
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The challenge of collegiality and the controversy over synodality
Debates and controversies over matters of doctrinal development never happen in a vacuum or in the abstract. Which is why it is always critical to assess both the intellectual milieu in which such debates take [...]
Features
Is Rerum Novarum a Socialist Manifesto?
Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum, while not the first social encyclical, was still a revolutionary document, albeit within the bounds of natural law and the Magisterium. Previous social encyclicals, beginning with Mirari Vos [...]
Essay
Science, Prayer, and the Density of Being
The other night, I watched a few minutes of the comedian Ricky Gervais’s new comedy show. Early in, he does a bit about his atheism and his willingness nonetheless to abide expressions of religious devotion. [...]
Features
Catholic film on “the transgender explosion” to premiere October 8th
Don Johnson, a Catholic filmmaker based in Anaheim, California, will premiere Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion, a new film on the transgender phenomenon sweeping the nation, on Saturday, October 8, from 6 [...]
Features
The “New World Order”: Conspiracy theory or political vision after all?
Editor’s note: The following Sept. 13, 2022, kath.net interview by Lothar C. Rilinger, translated for CWR by Frank Nitsche-Robinson, is reprinted here by kind permission of kath.net and Mr. Rilinger. Vatican (kath.net) The term “New [...]
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Kate Brown, governor of Oregon, where I’ve lived since 1991, was upset when news leaked in early May about the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs. How upset? Let me be very, very clear: You cannot [...] -
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Prosecution calls witnesses as Vatican finance trial resumes | Franciscan Sisters of St Joseph (FSJ) , Asumbi Sisters Kenya:
[…] Rome Newsroom, Sep 30, 2022 / 08:37 am (CNA). After a break of over two months, the Vatican trial…
Peter D. Beaulieu:
Cardinal Eijk was openly protested by homosexuals when he was appointed bishop of Groningen in 1999--a sure sign that the…
