The Dispatch
President Biden and a Catholic inflection point
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor [...]
What is analogy? A Thomistic introduction
Columns
In what follows I would like to introduce you to analogy from a Thomistic perspective. I will begin with a look at analogy in general. Then I will discuss some different kinds of analogy. And, [...]
United States of America in 2021
Features
Author’s note: This essay is a response to Carl E. Olson’s January 6, 2021 CWR editorial titled “Who are we, really, as Americans?” New Tribalism There is much confusion in America today, and our citizens [...]
Essay
The Virus, Abortion, and the Ethic of Isolation
As I pen these words tens of thousands of human beings have perished due to the worldwide pandemic of the Coronavirus—over 25,000 in Italy alone. Hardly a corner of the globe has been left unaffected, [...]
Books
The life, faith, and struggle of Joseph Ratzinger: An interview with Peter Seewald
The veteran German journalist Peter Seewald first met Joseph Ratzinger nearly thirty years ago. Since then he has published two best-selling book length interviews with Cardinal Ratzinger—Salt of the Earth: An Exclusive Interview on the [...]
Features
Ad Memoriam Maximi Magistri Latinae Linguae: Fr. Reginald Foster (1939-2020)
For the past few years the best Latin lessons in the world were being offered in the unlikely setting of a nursing home basement in Milwaukee. After working in the Vatican for 40 years as [...]
Analysis
Confusion twice confounded: On the motu proprio Spiritus Domini
Pope Francis’s latest motu proprio, Spiritus Domini, opens up the minor ministries of lector and acolyte to women. On the surface, this can look like much-ado-about nothing since females have been functioning as lectors and [...]
Books
City of splendor and filth: A review of The Accursed Tower
In 1108 Tughtegin, the Turkic atabeg of Damascus, offered to trade Gervase of Bezoches, the captured crusader Prince of Galilee, for the city of Acre (and two smaller possessions). Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, refused. [...]
Features
Pius XII, the New Vatican Archives, and the “hypologists”
Church history is a very strange phenomenon. It does not matter whether your academic position classifies you as an historian. If you are a Christian you risk having the label “apologist” put on your work, [...]
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Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), made the following remark as part of a longer statement about the violence in the United States Capitol: “I [...] -
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Tom in Florida:
Agree; good article, which I hope our Bishops are reading. Praying that they and the Vatican don’t throw the Little…
Dennis:
"We pray for his health, strength, and courage." No. The US has just installed the most illegitimate, corrupt (he and…
Jeremy:
The Bishops response...censored by the Vatican due to Blaze Cupich and others... January 22, 2021 Statement on the Inauguration of…
