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The Dispatch

“Infanticide” arguments are Band-Aids in the abortion fight

Pro-life advocates are galvanized after New York legalized abortion through the day of birth and a similar bill nearly became law in Virginia. Vice President [...]
The Dispatch

In Memoriam: Albert Finney

Albert Finney has died. He was one of the last great mid-century character actors, nominated for five Oscars—he was wonderful almost every time he appeared [...]
The Dispatch

Francis has shown confidence in Farrell long before new appointment

Pope Francis named Cardinal Kevin Farrell to the post of Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church on Thursday. With the appointment, Pope Francis has filled a [...]
Analysis

Infidelity in Marriage and in the Priesthood

Marital infidelity Infidelity in the Sacrament of Marriage is one of the most challenging of all wounds to heal. Infidelity creates severe betrayal pain for [...]
The Dispatch

SCOTUS to hear important case about religious “establishment”

Two years after his death, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is missed for many reasons, not least among them his colorful writing style. [...]

Infidelity in Marriage and in the Priesthood

Analysis

Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D. February 14, 2019 5

Marital infidelity Infidelity in the Sacrament of Marriage is one of the most challenging of all wounds to heal. Infidelity creates severe betrayal pain for spouses and children and, unless properly addressed, can result in [...]

Newman’s Canonization: A Summons to Truth

Essay

Edward Short February 13, 2019 2

Once the news came out today that John Henry Newman (1801-90) would soon be made a saint, after the Vatican announced that the pope had formally approved a second miracle attributed to the great convert’s [...]

Analysis

As a McCarrick verdict looms, the Vatican still faces rough waters

Christopher R. Altieri February 11, 2019 25

The world waits on tenterhooks for the announcement—expected, according to some sources, as early as Tuesday—of a verdict (and presumably a penal sentence) in the case of the disgraced former archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore [...]

Interview

The “useless” doctor of Lourdes

Father Seán Connolly February 11, 2019 7

“There is no other place in the Catholic world with so much suffering, and yet with so much joy, as Lourdes,” says Dr. Alessandro de […]

Essay

The Gift of Filial Adoption

Athanasius Schneider February 8, 2019 6

The Truth of the filial adoption in Christ, which is intrinsically supernatural, constitutes the synthesis of the entire Divine Revelation. Being adopted by God as sons is always a gratuitous gift of grace, the most [...]

Books

Narrating the Tradition of Liberalism’s Anti-Tradition

Brian Jones February 6, 2019 1

Criticizing the current liberal order is a popular activity. Authors such as Patrick Deneen, Rod Dreher, D.C. Schindler, Mark Lilla, Johnathan Haidt, and Jordan Peterson have generated significant conversation through their provocative salvos. While many [...]

Books

Revisiting “The Spirit of the Liturgy”

Peter M.J. Stravinskas February 4, 2019 16

Last year was a year of many anniversaries. One that was perhaps less noticed was the fortieth anniversary of Ignatius Press. As part of that observance, its founder, Father Joseph Fessio, decided to reprint what [...]

Features

Pope Francis misses the mark in focusing on clericalism and synodality

Christopher R. Altieri February 3, 2019 17

Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh has written a piece for Commonweal, on the meeting of the heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences scheduled for February 21-24 to discuss “the protection of minors and vulnerable adults.” Francis is [...]

Ignatius Press at Forty

James V. Schall, S.J. February 12, 2019 6

In a celebration in St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco this past November, the founders, staff, and several authors recalled the many books and initiatives that have poured forth from that dynamic and innovative source [...]
The Constructed Society and the Leaven of the Gospel

James Kalb February 7, 2019 9
Does the West face “an almost certain doom”?

James V. Schall, S.J. January 17, 2019 32

Fidelity or Idolatry? The conflict behind us, the crisis among us, the choice before us

Carl E. Olson January 7, 2019 30

“Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God.” — Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2113 “For the grace of God has [...]
The Pope fiddles, the bishops fumble, and the laity fume

Carl E. Olson November 14, 2018 49
Without truth there is no trust, and without trust…

Carl E. Olson July 23, 2018 69

“Infanticide” arguments are Band-Aids in the abortion fight

In Memoriam: Albert Finney

Francis has shown confidence in Farrell long before new appointment

Infidelity in Marriage and in the Priesthood

SCOTUS to hear important case about religious “establishment”

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Infidelity in Marriage and in the Priesthood

Newman’s Canonization: A Summons to Truth