The Dispatch
A busy, tense week in Wisconsin’s troubled capital city
MADISON, Wisconsin — Just as the legal repercussions of this summer’s Black Lives Matter riots in Wisconsin’s capital city begin to be felt, the Bishop [...]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. St. Damien: The Deeper Issue
Features
Three days after the executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “the future of the Catholic Church”—striking language given that the chairman of the Democratic National Committee called her “the future of [...]
Peacocking, Loyola, and Flannery O’Connor
Analysis
“That a good many Christians today kneel before the world,” Jacques Maritain observed in The Peasant of the Garonne, “is a fact perfectly clear.” Taking aim at the “new philosophy” he detected weaving its way [...]
Features
Classical music, beauty, and evangelization: An interview with Michael Kurek
Editor’s note: This is an installment in our series on the evangelizing power of beauty. In this series, we are looking at how beauty can bring us to God, convey a sense of the sacred, point [...]
Columns
A secular society?
Modern Western governments claim they leave questions of ultimate meaning to the individual. That is the point of the Supreme Court’s claim that our public order is based on “the right to define one’s own [...]
Features
Scholar debunks faulty analogy between the Hagia Sophia and Cathedral of Cordoba
The Turkish government’s decision two weeks ago to have the Hagia Sophia used as a mosque once again was met with outrage and concern throughout the world. The first day of prayer since the Hagia Sophia’s [...]
Essay
Master of Victims: Wokeness and the current war against Truth
“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.” — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance (Ignatius Press, [...]
Essay
Dorothy Day, precarity, and the universal call to holiness
Eugene McCarraher, in his new book The Enchantments of Mammon, makes the claim that the modern world, far from being a highly secularized and profane world devoid of spiritual “enchantments,” is in fact a world [...]
Books
Former Cosmo writer: “I wrote this book as an act of atonement.”
Over the last 60 years or so, the “sexual revolution” has transformed nearly every aspect of American society. Propaganda for the sexual revolution flowed from the pages of such publications as Cosmopolitan, where a young [...]
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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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Canon212 Update: Francis, His Fake Catholic Democrats and His Communists Are Against God – The Stumbling Block:
[…] A BUSY, TENSE WEEK IN WISCONSIN’S TROUBLED CAPITAL CITY […]
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You mention masons in a skeptical manner. They rule. Thats the problem u look at what they present. Which is…
Patrick Coulton:
"the arrogance of this post is astounding" I think the permanent diaconate needs a lesson in humility. What say you?
