The Dispatch
India, China, and the future
The September 2 issue of The Spectator featured a cartoon of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak riding an ascending rocket. Inside, [...]
Evangelization in an Age of Unbelief
Chapp's Schtick
Wohin ist Gott? (Where is God?) — Friedrich Nietzsche Part One: Nemo dat quod non habet (You cannot give away what you do not possess) The currently raging white-hot debates in the Church are merely the [...]
The Heart Has its Reasons: Thoughts on a Theology of Courage
Essay
Editor’s note: The following address was given at the Catholic Medical Association’s 92nd Annual Educational Conference on September 7, 2023. My comments today are not what I originally intended. A title like “the heart has [...]
Analysis
The Rupnik business will stain and possibly define Pope Francis’s legacy
How bad is this Rupnik business? It is very, very bad. The Rupnik business is worse—by orders of magnitude—than l’Affaire Barros, l’Affaire Inzoli, worse even than l’Affaire Zanchetta. The disgraceful rehabilitation of Danneels is mere [...]
Books
Literature, Truth and Beauty: Or, why “art for art’s sake” is poisonous
In an interview that I had the honor and joy of conducting almost 20 years ago, in 2005, Joseph Pearce revealed that his vocation is to mediate the encounter of as many readers as possible [...]
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 [...]
Analysis
Why Ratzinger and Wojtyła were correct about liberation theology
The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the final day of 2022 presents a continued opportunity to revisit and evaluate his legacy as a theologian, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the [...]
Analysis
Two Visions of “Evangelization”
A theological debate is being played out in the Catholic world, a debate whose ramifications are large. In its latest iteration, it began with Cardinal-elect Américo Aguiar, the Lisbon auxiliary bishop in charge of preparations [...]
Features
Will anyone in Rome get to the bottom of the Rupnik/Centro Aletti business?
After the statement from the Rome vicariate on Monday announcing a clean bill of health for the Centro Aletti, the only question is: What do you call a whitewash that is also a coverup that [...]
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“There you go again.” — Ronald Reagan, 1980 Pope Francis, addressing a group of Jesuits recently, said: “When you abandon doctrine in life to replace it with an ideology, you have lost, you have lost [...] -
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Europe needs hope, Pope Francis says – Via Nova:
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Peter D. Beaulieu:
About India, the partition of northwest and northeast India into the separate nation-state of Pakistan (1947, and later the separated…
Mary Taylor:
Thank you so much, Larry. This may be your best piece yet. Though I say that with each one I…
