The Dispatch
End-of-life care should never hasten death
“I want to change how the world sees my patients.” These words were spoken by a neurologist on a new show called Brilliant Minds, based loosely [...]
New Converts, Old Selves
Features
In his First Letter to Timothy, St. Paul, when laying out the qualifications of a bishop, includes this telling remark: “He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit [...]
Encountering Christ the Healer in MyCatholicDoctor
Features
While the need for a more faithful, more far-reaching, and more sustainable Catholic healthcare model has long been acknowledged, especially in circumstances in which the deficiencies of secular healthcare, especially with respect to life and [...]
Chapp's Schtick
The liberal and flawed roots of tiresome synodal grievances
One of the things I have learned in my 65 years of being a Catholic is that the meaning of the term “Church reform” in the post-Vatican II era is almost always a cognate for [...]
Essay
My Father Gives Me Bread: What the LGBTQ+ community needs from the Church
Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, [...]
Features
Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit mark ninth year in the Southwest
There aren’t many who would embrace a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience to serve an often-forgotten people in one of the hottest places in the United States. But that’s just what one of the [...]
Books
The Reformation as Renewal is an exemplar of special pleading
That the Reformation was a revolution is not a new idea. Centuries before contemporary scholars Brad S. Gregory or Patrick J. Deneen assessed the Reformation as an accelerant for modern secularism, individualism, and materialism, thinkers [...]
Features
Music Fit for a King
Composer and conductor Paul Jernberg currently resides in Lander, Wyoming, where he is Music Director at Wyoming Catholic College, and heads up the Magnificat Institute of Sacred Music, an organization dedicated to the renewal of [...]
Essay
The Legacy of Vatican II and the Problem of Religious Diversity
Editor’s note: The following is the concluding chapter (pp. 457-468) from the recently published book Jesus Christ, Scandal of Particularity: Vatican II, a Catholic Theology of Religions, Justification, and Truth (En Route Books and Media, [...]
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A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...] -
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Anna:
It is very difficult for me to relate to all that. I am from a tradition which has a very…
Mrs. Hess:
*receive quality care... Sorry for the typo
