The Dispatch
Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Eucharist
Do just one-third of American Catholics believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, as was reported in this 2019 study? Or do two-thirds [...]
“Thy will be done on earth”? On the anniversary of Quas Primas
Books
“Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endures throughout all generations.” — Psalm 145 (144): 13 St. Benedict directed his monks to pray the Psalm above during Vespers on Saturdays. While the Book [...]
“Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” is stylish and slippery
Features
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, a new docudrama streaming on FOX Nation produced by the celebrated director, features the lives of eight saints in dramatic enactments with documentary supplements. The series certainly has a fresh [...]
Features
Evangelization and the Eucharist: An interview with Curtis Martin
Curtis Martin is the founder of FOCUS, one of the leading global Catholic outreach organizations, which exists to spread the good news of Christ. The success of FOCUS is well-documented but, in light of the current [...]
Essay
Most of the Prodigies . . .
Note: The following remarks were delivered at the 2024 Napa Institute. In late March of 2018, early one morning, my wife told me that she was pregnant with our fifth child. He would be our [...]
Essay
On St. Nicholas, truth, magnanimity, holiness, and love
Note: This homily was preached on December 6, 2024, the memorial of St. Nicholas, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. I would like to dedicate my homily this evening to the [...]
Features
Bible boom: Why are people buying so many Bibles?
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CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Is the Bible — already the most widely printed book of all time — having a moment?As recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, Bible sales — across a variety o… […]
Features
Conclave is both anti-Catholic propaganda and secular confession
Much ink has been spilled by Catholics over the new film Conclave—and not by way of praise. Directed by Edward Berger, it is a piece of anti-Catholic propaganda posing as a film—and it is very [...]
Features
The enduring faith of long-suffering Catholics in Albania
Albanian Catholics are descendents of those who embraced the Faith in the early centuries A.D. And they held to the Faith through 400 years of Ottoman rule and, more recently, an extreme totalitarian regime that [...]
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Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life. Many people—including Catholics who merge [...] -
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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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Br. Jaques:
Good question!!!
Fr Peter Morello PhD:
Where in the revealed truths of our faith is there anticipation of a liberation, a joyous freedom, not from the…
Ronald J Mcgarrell:
Wonderful article....I have been listening to contemporary Christian music since 1973 when I got saved during the Jesus revolution....it kept…
