The Dispatch
Reading Flannery O’Connor for the first time
Reading Flannery O’Connor requires a stout heart and a strong stomach. In her short life, before she died of terminal lupus, she wrote two novels [...]
Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church
Chapp's Schtick
In a relatively unknown interview with Fr. Jacque Servais, SJ, the late Pope Benedict XVI was asked about the apparent change in the Church’s doctrine concerning the salvation of the unbaptized. Fr. Servais begins by pointing [...]
The situation in Syria “is worse now than under ISIS”
Features
“A knife must be put to their throats… This is their medicine.” These chilling words echoed through a mosque in Idlib, a province in northwestern Syria, were spoken by a jihadist cleric inciting his followers [...]
Features
Pondering the progressive Catholic media meltdown
TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome, has become a popular way of explaining why progressives, who presumably want to gain and retain power, exhibit inexplicable behavior like disproportionately temperamental, negative, knee-jerk responses to actions and policies [...]
Books
New book recounts Jesuit formation, missionary work during The Sixties
The history of the Church is replete with spiritual autobiographies, many of them written by saints, and many more written by priests, religious, and laity who have not been raised to the altars. Many Catholics [...]
Features
God, beer, and evangelization by the pint: The story of Tridentine Brewing
Father and sons team Jeff, Trevor, and Cameron Alcorn have been brewing beer in their basement for fun for over a decade. But in late 2024 year, three of their brews appeared on grocery store [...]
Analysis
The Doctrinal Implications of Amoris Laetitia’s Chapter Eight
Editor’s note: March 19th marks the ninth anniversary of Amoris laetitia (it was released on April 8, 2016), Pope Francis’s post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the pastoral care of families. Since that time, CWR has published [...]
Essay
St. Joseph and the vocation of consecrated laymen
Why be a consecrated layman, and not a priest? I am, after all, ‘available’ for the priesthood. I’m not married. Why not go ‘all the way,’ and seek ordination? As a layman in the life [...]
Features
Rights, Catholic Principles, and Prudence
When we have political disputes in the country, one way of trying to help clarify matters would be to remind the interlocutors of the relevant moral principles that should govern their disagreement. Murdering innocent people [...]
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In a relatively unknown interview with Fr. Jacque Servais, SJ, the late Pope Benedict XVI was asked about the apparent change in the Church’s doctrine concerning the salvation of the unbaptized. Fr. Servais begins by pointing [...] -
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The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...] -
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Cleo:
Equity Clinic. Spare me.
Amanda:
An alternative, orthodox Catholic theory to limbo that I've heard, is that those who die unbaptized and before the age…
DiogenesRedux:
William, if by any chance you're referring to my comments, I'll say the following. I thought the same thing when…
