The Dispatch
Extra, extra! News and views for February 8, 2023
December 25 – “Ukraine’s main Catholic church said on Monday it would move to a new calendar that would see Christmas celebrated on Dec. 25 [...]
The Church in Germany is on the path into total insignificance
Features
The Catholic Church in Germany is not only facing its last synodal assembly in March 2023, but also its biggest decision on direction in many decades. Reconciling the driving forces there with the clear admonitions [...]
This is not why I left Protestantism
Books
It was the late summer of 2010. I was a Protestant seminary student, but I had been studying (and disputing) various claims made by the Catholic Church, precipitated by the recent conversion of one of [...]
Columns
What to do with politics?
In Philippians 4:6, the Apostle Paul tells us: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think [...]
Analysis
The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality
St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgement of our own, and keep the mind every ready and prompt to obey in all things, the [...]
Books
History for laughs and for keeps
Many readers of Karl Keating’s 1054 and All That: A Lighthearted History of the Catholic Church might be tempted to see the book as little more than an amusing chronology of the Church history no [...]
Features
Callings, consequences, and vocational crises
Spend time with any group of devout young Catholics, and you will inevitably hear some talk of vocational discernment. Religious life, priesthood, or marriage? The decision comes easily to some, but others spend years discovering [...]
Features
Catholic Schools Week 2023: The Financial Question
For the 47th year, the Church in the United States observes Catholic Schools Week, this year from Sunday, January 29, to Saturday, February 4. As regular readers of CWR know, I am an indefatigable proponent [...]
Essay
Radical Inclusion Requires Radical Love
I have written of my concerns in the past with the German Synodal Process, as well as concerns with other bishops and cardinals and their take on the process. They essentially ignore the oft repeated [...]
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In Philippians 4:6, the Apostle Paul tells us: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think [...] -
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Shortly before his death two weeks ago, Cardinal George Pell wrote an essay lambasting what he described as “one of the most incoherent documents ever sent out from Rome.” Noted researcher and professor of sociology [...] -
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Irish Ann:
Remember when Sarah Palin coined the phrase "death panels?"
Peter D. Beaulieu:
From many of the comments, the final report of the European Continental Synod, and others, might restore this resolution of…
