The Dispatch
Mapping the cosmologies of Sigrid Undset
As a devoted admirer of Sigrid Unset, I look forward to learning more about her and the influences on her writing. In Sigrid Unset: Reader [...]
Martyrs of Communism in Peru
Features
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 [...]
Reflections on integralism in an age of (supposed) pluralism and tolerance
Columns
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 [...]
Books
Taking a Biblical walk through the Mass: An interview with Edward Sri
“Christ is always present in His Church,” states Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican II’s document on the Sacred Liturgy, “especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in the sacrifice of the Mass, not only in the [...]
Features
On Musk, markets, and man
Elon Musk is a curious guy. The son of a Canadian-born model and a South African engineer, he grew up in Pretoria before moving to Canada and later graduating from the Wharton School at the [...]
Analysis
Take the Red-Eye
It beggars belief that the bishop of Rome would visit Canada, to cement a series of apologies for Catholic failings in the residential schools affair, without taking a considered position on the charge of genocide. [...]
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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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What is the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life? – Via Nova Media:
[…] Rome Newsroom, Aug 10, 2022 / 09:47 am (CNA). A controversy over a book and statements made on Twitter…
