The Dispatch
The purifying fire of dividing, divine Love
Readings: • Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 • Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18 • Heb 12:1-4 • Lk 12:49-53 In the summer of 2007, the Congregation for [...]
Rejecting the “low-bar Thomism” of revisionist moral theologians
Chapp's Schtick
Having reviewed the republication of Henri de Lubac’s book The Church: Paradox and Mystery, I had to accept that space constraints prevented me from discussing at more length a part of the text that moved [...]
Walking with Generation Z: Understanding the Loneliest Generation
Analysis
Generation Z is approaching adulthood. Those born between 1997 and 2012 now fill our middle schools, high schools, and colleges. Unlike previous generations, Gen Z was raised with the internet at their fingertips and iPads [...]
Analysis
The Minimum Wage, Progressivism, and the Eucharist
Many today assume that the U.S. bishops have always stood united for the minimum wage and that it is part of the deposit of faith. However, this position evolved over the past century as the [...]
Features
Martyrs of Communism in Peru
The year 1968 was a dramatic one, all over the world. In 1968, the president of Peru was deposed in a military coup. His successor lasted several years until he was also deposed during a [...]
Columns
Reflections on integralism in an age of (supposed) pluralism and tolerance
People have been talking about integralism recently. What is it, and what should we know about it? In a short discussion I can only give my own interpretation, but will start with a definition by [...]
Essay
All Things Made New: Living the Lay Vocation
The following is adapted from July 30 remarks to the 12th annual Napa Institute summer conference. One of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite movies – and I mean this seriously — is the 1975 film Switchblade Sisters. [...]
Books
A novel depiction of the ups, downs, joys, and healing found in Purgatory
Fictional portrayals of purgatory have a grand lineage. Dante climbed the seven-tiered mountain centuries ago, and Tolkien placed his character Niggle (in the short story “Leaf by Niggle”) in a sort of otherworldly hospital-cum-labor camp. [...]
Analysis
Pope Francis, contraception, and the problem of ecclesial authority
It’s been reported (see here and here) that the recent text from the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL), Etica Teologica della Vita (Theological Ethics of Life, Vatican Publishing, 2022), advocates among other things the disregarding [...]
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Having reviewed the republication of Henri de Lubac’s book The Church: Paradox and Mystery, I had to accept that space constraints prevented me from discussing at more length a part of the text that moved [...] -
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Kate Brown, governor of Oregon, where I’ve lived since 1991, was upset when news leaked in early May about the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs. How upset? Let me be very, very clear: You cannot [...] -
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The Pitchfork Rebel:
Can you please do me a personal favor? I have a pet peeve. Never refer to elected or appointed political…
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