The Dispatch
Suffering and the divine punishment of the good alongside the wicked
Many today labor under the delusion that the reality of suffering is a difficulty for Christianity – as if Christian doctrine would lead us to [...]
“Beauty is our guide”: An Interview with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Features
Born in South Carolina, reared in Georgia, Glenn C. Arbery grew up as a Southerner and a Protestant. His reading of Flannery O’Connor as a freshman at the University of Georgia began his journey toward [...]
Major Archbishop Shevchuk: “Ukraine will say yes to a serious peace proposal”
Features
(Kyiv, November 17, 2022) In his hands he holds the letter that Pope Francis just sent to him. “Once again the Pope expresses his affectionate closeness” to the “dear Ukrainian people”. And he invites us [...]
Essay
What Is Social Justice?
Few terms have become as unmoored from their Catholic origins, and have thus lent themselves to misunderstanding in contemporary discourse, as has the term “social justice.” What does the term mean when it appears in [...]
Essay
A Tribute to David L. Schindler: Teacher and Friend
The theologian David L. Schindler once wrote that: [W]e must first recognize that our being originates as a gift: it has always first been given to us by God, and indeed by others in God. [...]
Features
Infallibility and the limits of papal power: An interview Cardinal Gerhard Müller
Editor’s note: The following kath.net interview was posted originally on November 15, 2022, and appears here with kind permission of Lothar C. Rilinger and kath.net. English translation is by Frank Nitsche-Robinson. Vatican (kath.net) According to [...]
Features
The Gospel According to the McDonaghs: The Banshees of Inisherin, Calvary, and In Bruges
Note: This essay contains spoilers for The Banshees of Inisherin, Calvary, and In Bruges. “The things you’re taught as a child…they never really leave you, do they?” These words could be at home in any [...]
Books
Revisiting the lively wit and uncompromising pen of “Diogenes”
Philip F. Lawler is the editor of Catholic World News (CWN), part of Catholic Culture, which he founded in 1996, making it the first English-language Catholic news service operating on the internet. He offers regular [...]
Chapp's Schtick
Angry hypocrisy and convenient ultramontanism at Nat’l Catholic Reporter
The folks over at the National Catholic Reporter must think we have poor memories or no memory at all. For decades, the Reporter positioned itself as the loyal opposition to what it viewed as an [...]
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The holy men and woman of the Old Covenant suffered torture, imprisonment, mocking, scourging, and death by horrific means because of their faith in God (cf Heb 11:32-40). Many early Christians, of course, suffered death [...] -
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Pope Tells Orthodox Pick a Date for Easter and We’ll Accept, Australian Bishop May Close Schools if Government Violates Religious Freedom, and More Great Links! - JP2 Catholic Radio:
[…] The Way of the Exile: A Review of Prophet – Nick Olszyk at The Catholic World Report […]
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I dunno, seems like a stretch, trying to Catholicize Thanksgiving Day. Maybe I should read it...
