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The Dispatch

‘Remember Me’ – Should Catholics talk to their dead loved ones?

Denver, Colo., Aug 18, 2019 / 04:57 am (CNA).- In the 2017 Disney-Pixar movie “Coco,” the main character, Miguel, accidentally passes over into the land [...]
Essay

The Martyrs of August

Editor’s note: This following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New [...]
The Dispatch

The purifying fire of dividing, divine Love

Readings: • Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 • Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18 • Heb 12:1-4 • Lk 12:49-53 In the summer of 2007, the Congregation for [...]
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Krakow’s Archbishop Jędraszewski under fire for remarks about “rainbow plague”

When Marek Jędraszewski was nominated by Pope Francis to be the new archbishop of Krakow, I wrote that he was a strong culture warrior unafraid [...]
The Dispatch

After Epstein death, theologians discuss suicide, salvation, and the obligations of the state

Denver, Colo., Aug 15, 2019 / 05:03 pm (CNA).- On August 10, investment banker and multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, [...]

The Martyrs of August

Essay

Peter M.J. Stravinskas August 17, 2019 6

Editor’s note: This following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City on July 9, 2019. Some months, like August, [...]

A Novitiate for Eternity

Books

Timothy D. Lusch August 15, 2019 3

Death generally makes for unsettling reading. Unless, of course, we’re talking about true crime fanatics or mystery lovers. Those people can’t get enough of it. But death, especially our own—The Big One, the thing none [...]

Analysis

White Nationalists and Black-clad Antifas

William Kilpatrick August 14, 2019 19

Shortly after the El Paso massacre, a terrorism expert appeared on my TV screen claiming that white nationalist terrorists were just like Islamic jihadists. Not long after, another expert in another interview said more or [...]

Features

Heroism and priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia

George Weigel August 14, 2019 6

In late June I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, located in a wooded suburb a few miles from downtown Munich. The camp site struck me as rather too neat: virtually all of the huts [...]

Analysis

“Amoris laetitia” is at the center of the controversy over the John Paul II Theological Institute

Christopher R. Altieri August 12, 2019 39

Somehow, the post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris laetitia, is at the center of the controversy over the present circumstances and future direction of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. At [...]

Features

Why have Catholics in the UK and US been leaving the Church since Vatican II?

Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille August 10, 2019 23

Stephen Bullivant is Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion at St. Mary’s University in London, where is also Director of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society. He studied theology and philosophy [...]

Film & Music

Tarantino’s bloody moralism and “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”

Titus Techera August 9, 2019 17

Quentin Tarantino has spent the last decade rewriting American history. His business is now poetic justice: the oppressed return in time, through Hollywood, to punish their historical oppressors. Inglorious Basterds (2009) had Jews kill Hitler, [...]

Analysis

What the Church does – and does not – teach about gun control

Catholic News Agency August 8, 2019 20

Denver, Colo., Aug 8, 2019 / 05:12 pm (CNA).- Jordan Anchondo and her husband, Andre were shopping for school supplies for their five-year-old last Saturday morning at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. They were [...]