The Dispatch
Analysis: Pell, and the politics of Rome
Vatican City, Aug 23, 2019 / 11:15 am (CNA).- This week’s decision by the Court of Appeal in Victoria marked the apparent conclusion of the [...]
Falsely, Matilda
Features
Was it mere coincidence, or perhaps Providence, that Catholics around the world read Psalm 94 at Midday Prayer on August 21, hours after an appellate panel of three judges announced a 2-1 decision rejecting Cardinal [...]
Married priesthood, celibacy, and the Amazon Synod: An Eastern Catholic priest’s perspective
Features
I am an Eastern Rite Catholic priest of the Byzantine Rite of the Ruthenian jurisdiction. While I myself am a celibate priest, I come from a long line of married Byzantine Catholic priests on both [...]
Features
Cardinal George Pell loses appeal of sex abuse conviction
Melbourne, Australia, Aug 20, 2019 / 06:31 pm (CNA).- The conviction of Cardinal George Pell has been upheld by the Court of Appeals in Victoria. After an appellate panel announced its decision at a court [...]
Essay
Amazonia: Upstart triads versus the Triune Oneness?
The Trinitarian Oneness is one thing, while a pre-Christian or post-Christian Triad is quite another. On this point, the Instrumentum laboris for the Amazonia Synod has muddied the waters. Here’s the triad parsed from the [...]
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 York City on July 9, 2019. Some months, like August, [...]
Books
A Novitiate for Eternity
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
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
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 [...]
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Liberalism tells us everyone should be able to do, be, and get whatever he wants, as much and as equally as possible. People believe that represents a new and higher stage in political and moral [...] -
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“At any given moment,” wrote the author, translator, and publisher Frank Sheed in The Church and I (1974), “one or other special problem looms to complicate things for the Church, looms and fades. But throughout [...] -
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Steve Seitz:
Joe K., Your comments don’t make a lot of sense in part because the Moral Majority and Christian conservatives…
SOL:
Western imperialism and colonialism had a big role in it, too, and Christianity existed in Asia long before the Latins…
Michael Petek:
Chief Justice Anne Ferguson and Judge Chris Maxwell are evildoers. They are LIARS. They knew and believed Cardinal Pell's conviction…
