The Dispatch
Weigel’s Books for Christmas–2019
Resist the twitterization of thought — give books for Christmas! The following titles will delight, instruct, edify (or all of the above): Churchill: Walking with [...]
A Course Reversal? On R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods
Columns
Many people today, especially conservatives and Christians, find it alarming that basic human connections and loyalties keep weakening in favor of impersonal economic and administrative arrangements. The tendency has been going on for a long [...]
Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 3
Columns
This is the third and last part of my discussion of Thomism and political liberalism. From the first two essays (see here and here) I think that we can conclude that one important thing that [...]
Features
Sheen beatification delay an act of “sabotage,” Peoria official writes
Peoria, Ill., Dec 7, 2019 / 09:30 pm (CNA).- After the Diocese of Rochester last week confirmed it had requested that the beatification of Venerable Fulton Sheen be delayed, a longtime Peoria diocese official is [...]
Essay
The Immaculate Conception Revisited
Last December, I wrote an article for Catholic World Report on the Immaculate Conception: “Why I came to believe that Mary was conceived without sin.” I argued that it was (1) a matter of typology, [...]
Features
You Better Watch Out—St. Nicholas is Coming to Town
Everyone loves jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas. There is something romantic and cozy about telling Santa stories around the crackling fire. He is an icon of the Christmas season. But not everyone agrees about the real [...]
Features
The ancient roots of deification in the Latin tradition
Dr. Jared Ortiz is Associate Professor of Religion at Hope College, author of You Made Us for Yourself: Creation in St Augustine’s Confessions (Fortress Press, 2016), founder and executive director of the Saint Benedict Institute, [...]
Essay
What the street tells me: Reflections in front of an abortion clinic
We are winning. This may seem an odd statement, particularly in light of the recent elections in my state of Virginia in which pro-abortion Democrats swept the boards. My counterintuitive judgment comes from street experience [...]
Essay
Advent and the Four Last Things
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., First Sunday of Advent (December 1, 2019), at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan. Today we begin a [...]
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There has been a fair amount of discussion and commentary among Catholics in recent years about “Nones,” notably the work of Bishop Robert Barron, who last week “outlined five paths Church leaders should take to [...] -
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father peter stravinskas:
Let's not generalize. The vast, vast majority of clergy throughout the world (and especially here in the States) are totally…
Wojtek M.:
"America is the only nation in the world that was form in; “God We Trust” and has used this to…
Jude:
Dear Father Peter- I often wonder how demoralising it must be for, especially Novus Ordo, priests under this pontificate. As…
