The Dispatch
“They killed Him”: Deicide and Holy Saturday
The Christ is dead; the corpse of the Son of God lies on a cold slab in a suffocating, lightless tomb. Holy Saturday is a [...]
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Catechumens in Canada enter Church drawn to truth, beauty, goodness
Features
On April 14, noted public Catholic intellectual Robert George posted on X, “Something’s happening. It’s happening in France. It’s happening in England. It’s happening in the U.S. I only began noticing it a few weeks [...]
Wounded Witness: A different perspective on the clergy sex abuse crisis
Analysis
The clergy sex abuse scandal has, without question, been devastating to the life of the Church, especially for all the victims and their families. In all the years I have followed the analysis of the [...]
Features
Bishop Anagbe, in DC testimony, warns of “Islamic agenda to homogenize” Nigerians
Concerns over the safety of Mgr. Wilfred Anagbe, the Bishop of Makurdi in Nigeria, and Fr. Remigius Ihyula are growing after the two men testified about the persecution of Christians in Africa’s most populous nation. [...]
Books
Prayers for Catholic Men aims to help men deepen their relationship with God
What does it mean to be a man? How are Catholic men supposed to navigate the tumultuous world we live in today? And what role does prayer play in that challenging task? The Catholic tradition [...]
Analysis
Surveying Synodality
It’s sometimes said that synodality has never been properly defined, perhaps because modern ecclesiastical texts are not written by Schoolmen. A suitable definition might run, ‘Synodality is a spirit of co-responsibility for the life and [...]
Features
Elon Musk and the Impossible
“It’s not possible.” “Do it anyway.” This is how I would summarize my recent reading of Elon Musk’s biography by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 2023). No matter what anyone thinks of this polarizing innovator, [...]
Books
Knowing and rejecting the Ideological Lie: An interview with Daniel J. Mahoney
Daniel J. Mahoney is a professor emeritus at Assumption University, where he taught from 1986 until 2021. He received his B.A. from the College of Holy Cross and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Catholic University [...]
Columns
Subduing the Earth: Dominion or Domination?
In the previous installment of this column, I reflected on the present-day significance of Adam’s vocation to avad (“till” or “cultivate”) and shamar (“keep” or “care for”) the Garden of Eden. At that time, I [...]
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In the previous installment of this column, I reflected on the present-day significance of Adam’s vocation to avad (“till” or “cultivate”) and shamar (“keep” or “care for”) the Garden of Eden. At that time, I [...] -
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The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...] -
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Robert Burke:
Many years ago, Pope Paul VI suggested the Catholics and Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter on the second Sunday in April.…
A Lent like no other… – The Joy of Penance:
[…] Catechumens in Canada enter Church drawn to truth, beauty, goodness […]
John Frawley:
Maybe the big problem is that Vatican II, in retaining celibacy for the priesthood in a world where sexual freedom…
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