The Dispatch
A Catholic defense of trick-or-treating
Alas, it is that time of year again when certain suburban moms across America log onto the neighborhood Facebook group to request that Halloween trick-or-treating [...]
John Henry Newman, Natural Religion, and the Mystery of Faith
Essay
Editor’s note: On Monday, November 1st—All Saints’ Day—St. John Henry Newman will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV. This essay is published here in honor of that proclamation and the [...]
The challenge of Saint Carlos: To love Jesus and know Him in the Eucharist
Books
In the age of mass media, particularly with the influence and ubiquity of the internet, there have been several incredibly high-profile canonizations of new saints in recent years. These include Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Saint [...]
Books
Language, Memory, and Community
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of wartime,” says Captain Charles Ryder in Evelyn Waugh’s novel, Brideshead Revisited. “These memories, which are my life—for we possess nothing certain [...]
Columns
Charity, liberty, and the contested history of the American story
In my previous essay, I proposed the idea of a “1531 Project” as a possible Catholic intervention into the contemporary culture wars over how properly to tell the story of American history. In this essay, [...]
Features
Ministry of Mercy: A review of Triumph Over Evil: Battle of the Exorcists
Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 reels Deliverance ministry is undergoing a revival in the early 21st century, both within the Church and the wider culture. When I was growing up in the late 1990s, [...]
Essay
The travels, detours, and miracles of Saint Anthony Mary Claret
Amazing supernatural events sometimes occur during the lives of the saints. But it is rare for miracles to be so frequent in an individual saint’s life that one could write a book simply about those [...]
Features
Nigerian church leaders welcome conclusions confirming Christian genocide
Church leaders in Nigeria say they are gladdened at the conclusion reached by a U.S. fact-finder that there is a systematic plan to erase Christianity in the African country. Mike Arnold, on October 14th, presented [...]
Chapp's Schtick
On the liberal, petty, and hypocritical attacks on Bishop Robert Barron
At its annual meeting in November, the USCCB will be electing a new president and vice president. A slate of ten names has been put forward. They are as follows: Bishop Robert Barron, Diocese of [...]
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There are no first, second or third-class Catholics, no.… Please, let us get used to listening to each other, to talking, not cutting our heads off for a word. To listen, to discuss in a [...] -
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Dr Martin James Rice:
New Revised Standard Version "No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I…
Helena Smith:
Hopefully this will discourage excessive marian piety and clear things up for the marian fanatics. There is a group at…
Nick:
We read "with proponents calling for Mary’s role in redemption to be declared a dogma but critics saying it exaggerates…
