The Dispatch
By embracing Christ’s Passion, we overcome our passions
Readings: • Wis 2:12, 17-20 • Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8 • Jas 3:16-4:3 • Mk 9:30-37 Three of the greatest temptations known to [...]
Final volume of commentary of Gospel of Matthew focuses on liturgy, Eucharist
Books
The fourth and final volume of the remarkable commentary series Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, written by Fr. Simeon Leiva-Merikakis, OCSO, was published recently by [...]
Dante at Seven Hundred
Essay
As the medieval poet Dante Alighieri ascends the mountain of purgatory, in the second canticle of his great poem, The Divine Comedy, he arrives as the terrace of the envious. There, those who took pleasure [...]
Essay
“A monument to pseudo-religiosity”: A case against The Poem of the Man-God
Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins at sunset on September 15th this year. It’s the climax of the High Holy Days when the judgments of God are sealed upon unrepentant sinners. So, it [...]
Features
Updated: Federal judge blocks New York’s COVID vaccine mandate for health workers
Editor’s note: This report was updated on Sept. 14, 2021, to reflect developments. A federal judge has temporarily barred the State of New York from enforcing its policy that all health care workers receive a [...]
Opinion
9/11: The day that changed America—or did it?
The media often describes 9/11 as the day that changed America. In one sense that’s true. America was changed in many ways. We went to war in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. Many young American [...]
Features
Michael O’Brien: “The Sabbatical is a call to stand firm…”
Michael D. O’Brien—iconographer, painter, novelist, critic—is the popular author of many best-selling novels, including Father Elijah, Strangers and Sojourners, Elijah in Jerusalem, The Father’s Tale, Eclipse of the Sun, Sophia House, The Lighthouse, and Island [...]
Features
Students sue Creighton University over COVID vaccine mandate
Four Creighton University students have sued the Jesuit-run university for its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy, which does not allow exemptions for sincerely held religious beliefs. One of the students, the president of Creighton Students for [...]
Essay
9/11 Revisited
Editor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. James V. Schall was originally published in slightly different form at Ignatius Insight on September 8, 2006, to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 [...]
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The dispute over the continuing value of the Traditional Latin Mass has drawn attention to the question of tradition and its role in the Church. That’s a complicated matter. Tradition is important, but not the [...] -
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“In journalism,” wrote Venerable Fulton Sheen in 1955’s Thinking Life Through, “the modern man wants controversy, not truth.” I could say that examples abound, but that would assume a broad definition—to the point of non-definition—of [...] -
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