Essay

Time travel to Bethlehem?

December 26, 2024 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 11

“If you could travel back in time to witness Jesus’ birth or any event in His life, would you do it?” Two enterprising Catholics posed this question to me during Advent. “Yes” was my unequivocal […]

The Dispatch

St. Perpetua’s Purgatory

November 21, 2024 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 7

Awaiting her execution in jail, Vibia Perpetua, a young mother and spiritual leader of a group of Christians in Carthage, had a vision while in prayer. She saw her brother Dinocrates, who died of cancer […]

Analysis

Catholicism and the truth about ideology

June 19, 2024 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 7

“Ideology” is the favorite boogey term of intellectual argumentation. Partisans of the Culture Wars and Ecclesial Wars agree on one point: the opposing position—but never one’s own—is always an ideology. “Republican ideology.” “Democratic ideology.” “Pope […]