The Dispatch
Honoring the Jubilee Year of St. Francis during St. Michael’s Lent
October 3rd will mark 800 years since the death of St. Francis of Assisi. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a [...]
Does Magnifica Humanitas help explain how social teaching should be understood today?
Columns
At least for me, Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical does little to resolve doubts about how Catholic social teaching should be interpreted and understood. But I should explain my doubts. In its modern form, social [...]
The WNBA is the Reductio ad Absurdum of Trans Ideology
Analysis
The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has perhaps done more to demonstrate the absurdity of transgender ideology than any American public institution. And it has done so through its endorsement of that very ideology. Over the [...]
Features
Nigerian bishop: Africa is not immune to what caused the decline of the Church in Europe
While churches across Western Europe continue to close their doors, repurpose their buildings, or grapple with widespread apathy, Nigeria is experiencing a Catholic awakening that defies global trends. With an estimated 35 million Catholics and [...]
Essay
On Abortion Pills, Wastewater, and Public Trust
One scandal of the COVID era was the alliance between government and some social media platforms to suppress doubt and dissent about the regime—especially compulsory vaccinations—to control the pandemic. A casualty has been the erosion [...]
Essay
Anthony Fauci, his beloved client, and the bureaucratic regime
In the late 1980s, while I was finishing my PhD at Claremont Graduate School, President Ronald Reagan appointed my thesis advisor, Dr. William Barclay Allen, to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. A year [...]
Features
“I think we’re poised for an amazing time in the Church.” An interview with Bp. Gerard W. Battersby
Bishop Gerard W. Battersby, 66, has served as bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, since 2024. He grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He and his brother, Chris, are twins and were the youngest [...]
Editorial
Reading Saint Paul in a Time of Synodality
“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...]
Books
Not just another book about abortion: An Interview with Stephen Bujno
Stephen Bujno holds a PhD in philosophy and an MA in philosophical anthropology, the field that grounds his new book’s central argument. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of philosophy at Villanova University, where he [...]
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knowall:
MI was similar including liquor. Also, you couldn't fish using a power boat because you might stop and get fuel…
Elias Galy:
The Gerard comments are in this CWR article, Fauci and lukewarm Catholicism. https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/07/30/anthony-fauci-and-lukewarm-catholicism/
Cleo again:
Rereading these comments. Amused to see comments seconding my grammar (hyper?)vigilance. I am a great admirer of Mr. Grondelski's writing,…
