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  • [ January 29, 2023 ] Pope Francis expresses sorrow over ‘spiral of death’ in the Holy Land News Briefs
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Articles by Alan L. Anderson

About Alan L. Anderson
Alan L. Anderson teaches theology at the Chesterton Academy of the Sacred Heart in Peoria, Ill.
The Dispatch

Seeing the saints in “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

December 25, 2021 Alan L. Anderson 5

“It is easy to be solemn,” G.K. Chesterton once noted, “it is so hard to be frivolous.” Ours are times when it is especially easy to tend to solemnity, thus allow me a few moments […]

The Dispatch

On those “mostly peaceful” protests

August 8, 2020 Alan L. Anderson 24

The elites in the mainstream press are at great pains these days to assure us that the violence and mayhem we are witnessing in our country is really only a small by-product of protests which, […]

The Dispatch

When Jesus seems lost: Mary’s Third Sorrow and the Church today

December 1, 2019 Alan L. Anderson 2

As I prayed for the Church during the Amazon Synod, I found myself returning to meditation on a particular event in the life or Our Lady—an event toward which I’ve been drawn more and more […]

Essay

Chappaquiddick, Apollo 11, and Obergefell: Anniversaries aligned

July 25, 2019 Alan L. Anderson 14

America is remembering two anniversaries this summer. First, on July 20th the nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Second, July 18th marked the 50th anniversary of an event far more […]

Books

“One man can make a difference”

July 22, 2018 Alan L. Anderson 6

Laura S. Gossin’s biography, One Man Perched on a Rock: A Biography of Dr. Warren Carroll, is an engaging account of conversion, belief, struggle, and […]

The Dispatch

On Holy Friendship and “Accompaniment”

May 6, 2018 Alan L. Anderson 9

“Accompaniment” appears to offer holy friendship, but it is holy friendship on the cheap–just as we cost-benefit analyzing materialists would have it. […]

The Dispatch

Praying for those who hate us: A Lenten lesson from news

February 23, 2018 Alan L. Anderson 6

Jesus cautioned the Apostles to “Watch and pray” lest they fall into temptation. Struggling with anger, I have a tendency to note the “Pray” part […]

The Dispatch

Our ugly progressive culture’s desperate need for authentic love and the Faith

December 16, 2017 Alan L. Anderson 7

By divorcing human intimacy from the context for which it was created our secular progressives have reduced it to simply pleasure, or what use to […]

The Dispatch

In Defense of Jonah

October 28, 2017 Alan L. Anderson 5

In the Reluctant Prophet we have the classic (and beautiful) case of God ‘choosing a crooked pencil to draw a straight line’, for Jonah is […]

The Dispatch

Enlightened urbanites and the violent sport of statue tipping

August 21, 2017 Alan L. Anderson 7

The exultation of self that the urbanites experience from tearing down the honor paid to others is like a drug, and like any narcotic it […]

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