The Dispatch
The central Mystery of the Faith, the Source of Reality
Readings: • Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9 • Dan 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 • 2 Cor 13:11-13 • Jn 3:16-18 The Trinity, the Catechism states, is [...]
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is an incomplete triumph
Features
“You’re like me.” That simple phrase, repeated a number of times in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is close to the film’s emotional center. Into the Spider-Verse is a layered movie brimming with ideas: It’s [...]
On the fading faith of Anglicanism
Columns
I’ve been thinking about two Anglicans named Charles lately. But before I talk about them, I want to say something about how and why I still talk occasionally about my former ecclesial group. When I [...]
Chapp's Schtick
Catholic alliances today and tomorrow: A response to Dr. Matthew Minerd
I want to begin by thanking Dr. Matthew Minerd for his generous and thoughtful response to my recent article on who it is that controls the narrative of modern Catholicism. Dr. Minerd and I have [...]
Analysis
“The child is not the mere creature of the state…”
In 1925, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names Jesus and Mary, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the right of parents in Oregon to have their children educated where they wished. Officials [...]
Books
Mary for Today provides timeless insights for our deeply confused age
“Can’t you see, this is me, I’m a woman,” sang musical superstar Tina Turner. None of the obituaries or commemorations of Ms. Turner, who died recently at age 83, seem to have any doubt that [...]
Analysis
The masks are coming off in Germany
Finally, the ZdK (Central Committee of German Catholics) is openly showing its true strategy: the gloves have come off in the battle for their declared goal of completely disempowering the bishops in the long term. [...]
Features
A deep dive: The Little Mermaid then and now
There’s something profoundly melancholy about Disney returning, in its present state of creative exhaustion and corporate decadence, to The Little Mermaid—the nucleus from which the entire Disney renaissance exploded, in a way along with everything [...]
Features
Catholic theology yesterday and today: A Thomist’s response to Dr. Larry Chapp
It was with great interest that I read Dr. Larry Chapp’s recent column “The Progressive Revolution’s Continued Control of the Ecclesial Narrative” (May 18, 2023). Dr. Chapp and I agree quite substantively on the current [...]
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I’ve been thinking about two Anglicans named Charles lately. But before I talk about them, I want to say something about how and why I still talk occasionally about my former ecclesial group. When I [...] -
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Raised in a Fundamentalist Protestant home and Bible chapel, I held to more than a few incorrect (and even wildly false) notions about the Catholic Church. Most of these involved Mary and the papacy. Catholics [...] -
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Larissa:
The guy murdered twice, and both times gruesomely in up close and personal ways (stabbing, bludgeoning). Just because he suffered…
SDG:
If everybody can be Spider-Man, then does Spider-Man even matter? This was a theme in the first film (“Anyone can…
Gilberta:
Lots of lessons for us Catholics in the rebellion of orthodox Anglicans against the Church of England, in case anyone…
