The Dispatch
“For the Holy Places”
From their humble beginnings in Assisi, the Franciscans quickly grew into a great religious order animated by the spirit of their founder. St. Francis’ life [...]
St. Thérèse of Lisieux: A guide to understand, appreciate the holy priesthood
Essay
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal gives the homilist for Holy Thursday unique counsel on Holy Thursday; it delineates the themes he should offer the faithful: Christ’s sacrificial and servant love; the meaning of [...]
Uncle, Father, Jesuit, Professor, Giant
Essay
The marketing blurb on the book When Jesuits were Giants begins with the statement: No one in France or the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century doubted that the Jesuits, loved [...]
Essay
Notre-Dame and the fragility of civilization
We will assign different proportions to divine intervention and human ingenuity, but that is a mechanical issue: Providence has decreed that Notre Dame cathedral be safe for the time being. Fire did not destroy her [...]
Features
Easter in Jail: The Travesty of the Pell Case
In December 2018, Cardinal George Pell, former Archbishop of Sydney and head of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, was convicted of “historic sexual abuse” in a court in Melbourne, Australia, where Pell served as [...]
Essay
“We live in a devastated age”: Reflections from Guardini on being “Lost in Chaos”
In 1933 Romano Guardini published a small monograph consisting of three lectures around the subject of conscience. It was originally titled Das Gute, das Gewissen und die Sammlung – the good, conscience and inner composure. [...]
Books
Cardinal Sarah and the Sunset of the West
Sometimes the most perceptive observers of a society are outsiders. Perhaps the best analysis of America, for example, was penned by the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville following his travels throughout the United States between [...]
Books
Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong: Fighter, Teacher, Risk-Taker
Cardinal Joseph Zen, the retired bishop of Hong Kong, has a poignant story in his new book, titled For Love of My People I Will Not Remain Silent: On the Situation of the Church in [...]
Editorial
Editorial: Benedict XVI’s essay is both insightful and incomplete
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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Lent is a time of retreat and reflection. That can mean very different things for different people at different times in their lives. But it always means stepping back from daily preoccupations and looking at [...] -
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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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Jeanne Bergeron:
Thank you Pope Benedict for your letter. It was well written and makes very good points.
Robert Boyk:
Bishop Robert Barron..."That’s how Jesus died: at the limit of physical suffering, covered in bruises and lacerations, his bones broken…
Ramjet:
No matter how you slice it, it always comes down to the homosexual act. Tobin and Martin choose to look…
