The Dispatch
Opinion: On liturgical wars and rumors of wars
Disquiet abounds at present in the milieu which celebrates the usus antiquior – the more ancient use – of the Roman rite of the Sacred [...]
Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down COVID school closures
Features
MADISON, Wisconsin — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday struck down the Dane County health officer’s order to close schools to in-person learning for most grades, ruling the order was an illegal infringement on parents’ [...]
The Case for a Global Ban on Surrogacy
Features
The surrogacy industry got its start based on the same principles of bodily autonomy and privacy that piloted Roe v. Wade and abortion—what the surrogate or egg donor does with her own body is her [...]
Features
The Lie of the Wokeing Dead
“The Wokeing Dead.” It’s not simply a play on words. The term actually captures the essence of the woke movement. Although the woke people consider themselves to be in tune with the latest ideas, the [...]
Features
Cardinal Pell: I wasn’t sure “justice and respect for evidence would prevail”
A remarkable drama played out on the world stage, via the Australian justice system, in 2019 and 2020, as Cardinal George Pell fought accusations of historical sexual abuse—described by Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., as “totally [...]
Essay
The Astronomer, the Physicist, and Worlds Colliding
What have ancient Greek philosophy, a prophecy of Christ and COVID in common, and might this commonality be used to find common ground? For people once on familiar speaking terms are now no longer, as [...]
Essay
From “Eucharistic irreverence” to “Eucharistic amazement”
Editor’s note: The following lecture was delivered on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi (June 6, 2021) at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross to launch the Year of the Eucharist for the Archdiocese of Boston. [...]
Columns
The pluribus and the unum
Government is difficult. How can anyone run other people’s lives when he likely has trouble running his own? A basic difficulty is the old problem of the one and the many. In philosophy that problem [...]
Essay
How the Feast of Corpus Christi developed
O most noble memorial; to be commemorated in the innermost heart, firmly bound in the soul, diligently kept in the depth of the heart, and recalled by earnest meditation and celebration. – Pope Urban IV, [...]
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Government is difficult. How can anyone run other people’s lives when he likely has trouble running his own? A basic difficulty is the old problem of the one and the many. In philosophy that problem [...] -
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Teresa Buonafede:
We are part of the International apostolate, TEAMS of Our Lady and that has been a blessing for us as…
Rosemarie:
Dr Manuel, "How many people (esp the poor) has he physically been in Contact with and interacted with?" Consider me…
Eli Soriano:
I like and anticipate with joyful hope the bishops teaching “Eucharistic coherence” and deny communion to politicians who scandalously publicly…
