The Dispatch
The Incarnation and three metaphysical paradoxes
Readings: • Zech 9:9-10 • Psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 • Rom 8:9, 11-13 • Matt 11:25-30 The literary critic Hugh Kenner, in Paradox in Chesterton [...]
The Declaration of Independence at 250: An interview with Bradley J. Birzer
Books
Bradley J. Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College since 1999, is a prolific author and a good friend. He has written books on Russell Kirk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Dawson, Charles Carroll, and drumming legend [...]
If We Can Keep It
Essay
On September 17, 1787, as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention filed out of the Pennsylvania State House, having just finished the most consequential document most of them would ever sign, a Philadelphia woman named [...]
Features
Vatican confirms excommunication of SSPX bishops, declares schism
Because the traditionalist group consecrated bishops without papal approval, the Vatican issued a decree on July 2 declaring those bishops and their consecrators automatically excommunicated. […]
Essay
What links disintegration? On Rousseau, gnosticism, and Saint Michael
The truth will not only “make us free” but it is itself free. We all come in fact to know the same truth, otherwise we could not communicate at all with one another. This is why the [...]
Analysis
Social contagion and the rise and fall of transgenderism
For more than a decade, the United States and much of the Western world witnessed a dramatic rise in transgender identification, especially among female adolescents and young adults. The speed, the scale, and the demographic concentration [...]
Essay
Digging deeper into the “Christian” origins of feminism and of our nation
The current debate over the Christian origins of feminism is a lot like the one over the Christian origins of America. It is argued that the Founders of America and the “first wave” feminists were [...]
Analysis
Getting Bible Translations Right: A Case Study from 1 and 2 Timothy
In a recent address, Pope Leo XIV counseled priests not to rely on artificial intelligence for the composition of their homilies: Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if [...]
Features
Opinion: The U.S. bishops missed an opportunity with changes to the “Charter”
The internet buzzed after the U.S. bishops consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Orlando on Thursday. June 11. Catholic news outlets and bloggers mostly raved enthusiastically, while the secular media propagated [...]
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Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, which, he had prophesied, was doomed to end in catastrophe. He lived without worldly ties: without a job, wife, children, steady source of income, [...] -
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“Indeed it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity.” — Saint Augustine, Confessions (quoted in CCC 2340) “I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by [...] -
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The Pitchfork Rebel.:
And how about the people who are supposed to accept without condition or limit? Do we have any of the…
Larry Northon:
I must agree 100% with Mr. Vail. As in secular law, one's intent can be inferred from one's actions. It…
Dr Martin James Rice:
Can lay people help our beloved Pope Leo xiv deal with the 'Freemason Reformation' that is currently invading The Church?…
