The Dispatch
“Fasting without almsgiving is entirely without benefit…”
Each Lent, we are called to the penitential disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. In the past, I’ve focused on fasting most of all, believing [...]
The situation in Syria “is worse now than under ISIS”
Features
“A knife must be put to their throats… This is their medicine.” These chilling words echoed through a mosque in Idlib, a province in northwestern Syria, were spoken by a jihadist cleric inciting his followers [...]
Pondering the progressive Catholic media meltdown
Features
TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome, has become a popular way of explaining why progressives, who presumably want to gain and retain power, exhibit inexplicable behavior like disproportionately temperamental, negative, knee-jerk responses to actions and policies [...]
Books
New book recounts Jesuit formation, missionary work during The Sixties
The history of the Church is replete with spiritual autobiographies, many of them written by saints, and many more written by priests, religious, and laity who have not been raised to the altars. Many Catholics [...]
Features
God, beer, and evangelization by the pint: The story of Tridentine Brewing
Father and sons team Jeff, Trevor, and Cameron Alcorn have been brewing beer in their basement for fun for over a decade. But in late 2024 year, three of their brews appeared on grocery store [...]
Analysis
The Doctrinal Implications of Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight
Editor’s note: March 19th marks the ninth anniversary of Amoris laetitia (it was released on April 8, 2016), Pope Francis’s post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the pastoral care of families. Since that time, CWR has published [...]
Essay
St. Joseph and the vocation of consecrated laymen
Why be a consecrated layman, and not a priest? I am, after all, ‘available’ for the priesthood. I’m not married. Why not go ‘all the way,’ and seek ordination? As a layman in the life [...]
Features
Rights, Catholic Principles, and Prudence
When we have political disputes in the country, one way of trying to help clarify matters would be to remind the interlocutors of the relevant moral principles that should govern their disagreement. Murdering innocent people [...]
Columns
The story of two Irish American city boys and an urban Catholic parish
It is March. St. Patrick’s Day season is upon us. Americans of all and no ethnic traditions will be subject to a full-scale assault by every imaginable weapon of fake Irish culture: from Shamrock Shakes [...]
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It is March. St. Patrick’s Day season is upon us. Americans of all and no ethnic traditions will be subject to a full-scale assault by every imaginable weapon of fake Irish culture: from Shamrock Shakes [...] -
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The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...] -
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Amen, Sista!
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Do you have a reference for that quote?
