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The Dispatch

Television series produced by Knights of Columbus emphasizes sacrifice, heroism

MPAA Rating: NR USCCB Rating: NR Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars The term “hero”, in 21st-century America, usually conjures up images of supernatural [...]
The Dispatch

A story of restoration: An Anglican community finds home in the Catholic Church

When Father Christopher Pearson and some of his flock at St. Agnes Church in Kennington, South London, made the decision to come into full communion [...]
The Dispatch

The Catholic and the Church: Relationship? “Rule-lationship”? Or Both?

Readings: • Acts 14:21-27 • Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 • Rev 21:1-5a • Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35 Among the criticisms I once had, as an Evangelical, [...]
Features

Violence in service of justice: Why the “John Wick” movies resonate

The one impressive action-movie idea of recent times—the John Wick franchise starring Keanu Reeves—is drawing to a conclusion with John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, [...]
Features

The decline of culture, the loss of beauty—and the surprising resurgence of poetry

Dana Gioia is an internationally recognized poet and critic, and the author of several collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book [...]

Violence in service of justice: Why the “John Wick” movies resonate

Features

Titus Techera May 17, 2019 0

The one impressive action-movie idea of recent times—the John Wick franchise starring Keanu Reeves—is drawing to a conclusion with John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, in theaters this weekend. The action is the best the [...]

The decline of culture, the loss of beauty—and the surprising resurgence of poetry

Features

Carl E. Olson May 16, 2019 9

Dana Gioia is an internationally recognized poet and critic, and the author of several collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and the widely acclaimed 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016). [...]

Essay

It’s time for Catholics (and all religious people) to wake up: The real danger posed by the California Confession Bill

Bishop Robert Barron May 15, 2019 29

SB 360 [link], a piece of proposed legislation currently making its way through the California state senate, should alarm not only every Catholic in the country, but indeed the adepts of any religion. In California, [...]

Film & Music

Dogma at 20: Revisiting Generation X’s controversial manifesto of faith

Filip Mazurczak May 14, 2019 6

Twenty years ago, Kevin Smith’s Dogma had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film aroused enormous controversy. A dispassionate look at the film’s message cloaked underneath a shell of vulgar dialogue is valuable [...]

Interview

Papal Household Theologian on sparking faith, returning to basics of Catholic life

Paul Senz May 13, 2019 8

In the tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, members of the Dominican Order tend to be particularly well-versed in philosophy, theology, scholasticism, and the great intellectual tradition of the Church. This is part of the reason [...]

Essay

Fatima, ideology, and the Vatican’s homosexual crisis

Carrie Gress, Ph.D. May 13, 2019 29

Both radical feminism and homosexuality have no use for healthy, ordered, loving men and women, parents, and children. […]

Analysis

What’s (not) in Pope Francis’s new accountability measures

Christopher R. Altieri May 11, 2019 17

We spent most of Thursday learning what is in the new law, Vos estis lux mundi, after Pope Francis presented it to the public ahead of June 1st, the date on which is slated to [...]

Books

What’s missing in the “Tolkien” biopic

Titus Techera May 10, 2019 6

This weekend, American movie theaters will feature the first-ever biopic of J.R.R. Tolkien, the most important fantasy writer, and the most popular writer to have thought through the moral and political changes Christianity brought into [...]

A Practical Agenda for Catholics

James Kalb May 7, 2019 10

The Church has had a political role since Constantine. That is no surprise. Catholicism is primarily a doctrine and way of living for its adherents. But the Faith deals with basic realities that have public [...]
Lenten Thoughts on Politics

James Kalb April 2, 2019 11
Can We Turn Back the Clock?

James Kalb March 19, 2019 9