The Dispatch
With Roe gone, we still need a culture of life
Volunteering in the Pro-Life movement in the 1990s, I remember praying for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as if it would immediately end the [...]
The Politics of Three Cardinals
Editorial
Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s [...]
Islam, Iran, and the separation of church and state
Essay
Public debate surrounding the turmoil in Iran is increasing, and rightly so. Unfortunately, I have observed an increasing default to a tired conclusion, namely that religion itself represents a corrosive threat to political order and [...]
Essay
When words mean anything, they mean nothing(ness)
Over the course of a few days in mid-January, the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) heard oral argument in a major Title IX case, a U.S. Senate committee held a hearing about the danger of chemical abortions, and [...]
Features
The “Old Mass” and the “Novus Ordo” Mass: Irreconcilable differences?
Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally at CWR on July 3, 2022. “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” (Col. 3:21) The relationship between the preconciliar and postconciliar forms of Mass [...]
Analysis
Iran, the Quran, and the West
What is unfolding in Iran today is faithful to the Quran. The present regime represents the mature expression of political Islam as articulated through Quranic command, prophetic precedent, and juridical enforcement. The Iranian theocracy emerged [...]
Chapp's Schtick
Ratzinger v. Kasper: Why the debate matters even more today
December 31, 2025, marked the third anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI. Perhaps, therefore, now is as good a time as any to look back and reflect on his legacy. But why yet [...]
Essay
“Swinging for the fences”: Lessons from my younger brother on living and dying
December 12, 2021, was the day my younger brother’s scan revealed the hard news that the pain in his left hip—which he jokingly called “a giant tumor”—was indeed precisely that. For months, he had attributed [...]
Essay
Thoughts on America, Age 250
Americans are bad at history. As the late Christopher Lasch and many other scholars have noted, we’re ambivalent about the past. We claim to be a “new order of the ages,” words stamped in Latin [...]
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Sean:
Bergoglio’s thugs. They have their outdated socialist agenda which Trumps anything to do with Catholocism. Useless old men. So be…
Fr Peter Morello PhD:
Rather better said, that Christ offered himself to the Father for them, present to them as the Holy Eucharist.
ND:
“Hopefully, Pope Leo understands that the division that does exist is the result of a small group of bishops who…
