The Dispatch

Grumpy priests and Saint Thomas Becket

December 29, 2025 Dawn Beutner 19

We Catholics tend to have unrealistic expectations about our priests. We want every one of them to deliver brilliant, engaging homilies just like Venerable Fulton Sheen, possess the spiritual depth of Saint Thomas Aquinas, be […]

Essay

The Smiling Face of Erasure 

December 28, 2025 David Deane 34

I was recently interviewed on CTV, Canada’s national broadcaster, about Pope Leo’s start in the papacy. The interviewer asked a question that I have been asked in scores of interviews about the papacy of either […]