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Features

Pope Francis’ new comments on the death penalty are incoherent and dangerous

Debate has always been an invigorating and constructive way of defining and refining views, assuming that the debaters have minds of probity and reason. This [...]
The Dispatch

On evangelizing the culture and why hobbits (really) need the Shire

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Catholics today will argue about the best way to evangelize the culture. One of the more typical approaches [...]
The Dispatch

God bless Fr. LaCuesta

If the text recently sent to me really was the homily that Fr. Don LaCuesta preached at the funeral Mass of a young man who suddenly killed himself a [...]
The Dispatch

About that funeral Mass homily, some points

I do not know Fr. Don LaCuesta or the Hullibarger family nor do I know what LaCuesta said in his homily at last week’s funeral for 18-year-old [...]
Features

Secrecy and suppression reign Down Under

Imagine receiving your news dispatch one day, and finding in it the report of a person committed to trial for serious crimes. Imagine the report [...]

Pope Francis’ new comments on the death penalty are incoherent and dangerous

Features

Fr. George William Rutler December 18, 2018 1

Debate has always been an invigorating and constructive way of defining and refining views, assuming that the debaters have minds of probity and reason. This is increasingly absent in our culture, where subjectivism rules, and [...]

Secrecy and suppression reign Down Under

Features

Christopher R. Altieri December 16, 2018 3

Imagine receiving your news dispatch one day, and finding in it the report of a person committed to trial for serious crimes. Imagine the report did not specify the number or the specific kind of [...]

Essay

Living Advent and celebrating Christmas in a secularized, materialistic society

Peter M.J. Stravinskas December 16, 2018 7

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the Third Sunday of Advent, December 16, 2018, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan. Today we [...]

Books

“The Best Books I Read in 2018”

CWR Contributors December 14, 2018 7

“The first use of good literature,” wrote G.K. Chesterton in his essay “On Reading” (found in the 1950 Sheed & Ward collection The Common Man), “is that it prevents a man from being merely modern. [...]

Analysis

Camille Paglia, Plato, and the paradox of freedom

Vivian Dudro December 13, 2018 10

Camille Paglia is an enigma. Identifying more with males than females since childhood, Paglia calls herself trans; yet she rejects a key false assumption of transgender ideology: “The cold biological truth is that sex changes [...]

Essay

Spanning continents and centuries, Our Lady’s message is clear

Jeanette Flood December 12, 2018 1

In the last several days, the Church has celebrated both the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (December 8) and the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12). This makes it particularly fitting to consider [...]

Analysis

Reports of Pell guilty verdict emerge, despite gag order

CNA Daily News December 12, 2018 20

By Ed Condon Sydney, Australia, Dec 12, 2018 / 10:48 am (CNA).- Cardinal George Pell has been convicted by an Australian court on charges of sexual abuse of minors, according to media reports and sources [...]

Books

Michael O’Brien’s “The Apocalypse” emphasizes reflection over sensationalism

Timothy D. Lusch December 10, 2018 1

The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem [...]

Technology or Tradition?

James Kalb December 6, 2018 0

In the last couple of months I’ve discussed problems arising from over-reliance on technological ways of thinking, and suggested that our response as Catholics should emphasize things that such ways of thinking leave out—the Faith, [...]
Social justice, Judaism, and the primacy of the sacred

James V. Schall, S.J. November 23, 2018 6
Overcoming the Rule of Technology

James Kalb November 20, 2018 5