The Dispatch
Pope Francis’s remarks to AP about Rupnik are confusing and contradictory
A papal interview made real waves in the news this week, for the first time in a good while and for very good reason. The [...]
Why St. Thomas?
Columns
The Church has given the title “doctor” to some of her saints. In Latin doctor means “teacher” and the doctors of the Church are teachers of a very special sort. Pius X calls them “our [...]
Films of memory and identity: My favorites of 2022
Features
The movie year 2022 was a year of memory and identity, with one film after another exploring how memory both gives us access to our past, to our roots, and also distorts and obscures the [...]
Features
Why is ad orientem worship so controversial?
Until the 1960s, Catholics worshipped ad orientem, with priest and congregation facing the East during Mass. Originally Christians celebrated Mass before daybreak Sunday morning with the rising sun serving as a symbol of Christ’s resurrection [...]
Books
New book examines origins, history, and goals of the sexual revolution
Over the last several decades, the decay in our society has flowed almost exclusively from the rotten state of the family, confusion over proper approaches to human sexuality, gender, and more, all of which is [...]
Columns
Garrigou-Lagrange’s On Divine Revelation is a master class of Thomistic apologetics
I’m sure very few people ever expected to see a revival of interest in the thought of the late French Dominican theologian Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange. In preconciliar Catholic theology his traditional Thomism belonged to the mainstream, [...]
Editorial
Dialoguing with the most incoherent document ever sent out from Rome
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 [...]
Essay
The need for orthodoxy in a world of dangerous “orthodoxies”
One succinct definition of orthodoxy is “An authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice.” Within the Catholic faith, orthodox belief is considered to be adherence to the deposit of faith that has come down [...]
Analysis
How to help Catholics get married
In Part One of this essay, I noted that marriage rates have declined in recent decades, including among Catholics, and that there are countless reasons for this trend. While many Catholics have been impacted by [...]
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LJ:
Weird and disgusting. Your tax dollars at "work".
Deacon Edward Peitler:
Dear, dear Francis, I stopped listening to anything you say or write a long, long time ago. Issue an encyclical…
Fr Peter Morello, PhD:
A good question framed in context of pure act of existence not subject to causality. Your formula is God is…
