The Dispatch
In South Carolina, Senate Bill 323 may soon make abortion illegal
The state of South Carolina is among the strongest pro-life states in America. The state already has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in [...]
On the liberal, petty, and hypocritical attacks on Bishop Robert Barron
Chapp's Schtick
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 [...]
“Thy Kingdom Come!”: Christ the King reigns in consciences
Essay
That Jesus taught His disciples to pray for the coming of the kingdom (Mt 6:9–13; Lk 11:2–4) long before they could fully understand its true nature has long intrigued me. Clearly, Jesus intends to lead [...]
Essay
A Clash of Liberalisms
When framing out a room, everyone knows that the first corner must be square, or else the second will be off at the far end of the wall. Even if the first corner is imperceptibly off, [...]
Features
Against saying “Catholics believe”
My sophomore English teacher taught an invaluable writing lesson that has stayed with me: “Show, don’t tell.” In explicating texts, we should make our point directly without saying we are doing so. Rather than begin [...]
Analysis
How not to limit free speech
I am by no means a free speech absolutist. In an article at Postliberal Order a couple of years ago, I set out the natural law position on the issue, noting that the teleology or final cause of [...]
Features
Leo XIV: Our Anti-Americanist Pope
One of the more noteworthy episodes during the late nineteenth-century tenure of Pope Leo XIII was the pope’s response to the so-called “Americanist” controversy in the United States. Leo XIII wrote two encyclicals addressing issues [...]
Analysis
Catholicism and Israel: Perspective and insight from a Dominican theologian
The last two years have provoked a significant amount of debate in Catholic circles as to how the Church should understand and relate to the modern state of Israel. Prominent Catholic politicians profess ‘unwavering support’ [...]
Essay
The need for the Madonna in reforming our culture
As Tom Holland’s 2021 book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World reveals, in every past civilization (even our Greco-Roman forbearers), women were either commodities, guarded by their families as dynastic assets, or simply booty, “sex [...]
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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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God’s Fool:
Appreciate the effort but Michael Sean Winters is a heretic. Why respond to him at all? Bishops who are advised…
The Pitchfork Rebel:
If they are firing at you, you're over the target. Winters is a political activist, and not a particularly adept…
