The Dispatch
Louis IX: Knight, Crusader, King, and Saint
Today even the Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe acknowledges the many virtues of Saint Louis IX. […]
What are the “Deep State” and “Deep Church”?
Columns
The phrase “deep state” has been in the news lately, mostly in connection with the extraordinary resistance within the federal government to Donald Trump. The conception is sometimes extended to to the “deep church,” which [...]
School choice overcomes a major historical hurdle
Analysis
The first term paper I ever wrote (in freshman year of high school) was on the Canadian system of funding faith-based schools. In the early 1980s (those halcyon days of the very pro-Catholic President Ronald [...]
Features
Liberal Arts and the Pandemic
It’s a shame we’re not in the classroom these days, because the pandemic would be the perfect subject for discussion in a liberal arts university. Indeed, I would suggest it is precisely because of the [...]
Features
Exposing the first 20th-Century genocide: The Armenian genocide
Siobhan Nash-Marshall is uniquely placed to offer penetrating and illuminating insights into one of the darkest and most horrific chapters in human history. The chair of philosophy at Manhattanville College in New York is the [...]
America on Trial
“America on Trial”: A Catholic World Report Symposium
Ignatius Press recently published Robert R. Reilly’s America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding. It is, as the subtitle indicates, a response to recent books and essays arguing that the moral, social, and political [...]
Features
“Catholics, start reading the Bible!”: An interview with Fr. Timothy Peters
Fr. Timothy Peters, S.T.D., is an assistant professor of biblical studies at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California, which serves the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as well as other dioceses, including the Diocese of Orange, for [...]
Features
Misdirected religion and the motives of the “Black Lives Matter” movement
The late Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020), perhaps the greatest conservative philosopher of our age (though he often remarked that there was not much competition around), was my mentor. Scruton was my teacher during my Master’s [...]
Essay
A Catholic response to racism
“Sooner or later, all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.” The Reverend [...]
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What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, [...] -
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Carl E. Olson:
You might enjoy this 2013 Kalb column: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2013/12/09/subsidiarity/
meiron:
Bishop Baron, Respectfully, You need to pick up a cross and carry it up a hill.
Supreme Court delivers two important victories for religious freedom... - Salvation & Prosperity:
[…] Benedict XVI reminded us in his encyclical Deus Caritas Est, and as Pope Francis reminded us in his first…
