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About Dorothy Cummings McLean
Dorothy Cummings McLean is a Canadian writer living abroad. Her first novel with Ignatius Press is Ceremony of Innocence. She is a regular writer for LifeSiteNews.com. Her first book, Seraphic Singles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Single Life, is a popular work of nonfiction.
The Dispatch

A Stripper Pole at the Super Bowl?

February 3, 2020 Dorothy Cummings McLean 84

Did you watch the Super Bowl Halftime show with your kids? I’m wondering at what point my football-loving readers sent their kids out of the room and at what point they joined them in the […]

Books

Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” is a call to clarity in an age of chaos

February 11, 2018 Dorothy Cummings McLean 13

Why the University of Toronto professor’s bestselling 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is the most thought-provoking self-help book I have read in […]

The Dispatch

Death comes like a thief in the night

March 24, 2017 Dorothy Cummings McLean 2

On March 7, at about 9 p.m., my husband was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The doctor didn’t know if it was malignant, but as it had caused a blockage of fluid, Mark would have […]

Special Report

Polish Independence Day Marches Demonstrate Ideological Divides

November 16, 2016 Dorothy Cummings McLean 1

WARSAW. On November 11, the 98th anniversary of Poland’s regained independence, the cold streets of central Warsaw were crammed with citizens marching under red-and-white Polish flags. Two rival marches held that day illustrated Poland’s ideological […]

Interview

Courage and the work of Fr. John Harvey arrive in Italy

October 26, 2016 Dorothy Cummings McLean 0

Courage, a Catholic apostolate for men and women experiencing same-sex attractions (SSA), was founded by Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York in 1980. Inspired by the work of American Father John F. Harvey, Courage has […]

Special Report

Visiting the Benedictine Monks of Norcia

October 11, 2016 Dorothy Cummings McLean 0

This is how you get to Norcia. You fly to Rome and travel to its central railway station. You then take the Ancona train to Spoleto—I recommend the 11:58 AM. If you can’t manage that, […]

News

After devastating earthquake, Norcia Monks begin to rebuild

September 5, 2016 Dorothy Cummings McLean 0

On the Feast of St. Bartholomew, August 24, at 3:36 AM Italian time, an earthquake shook southern Umbria, damaging much of the region, including Norcia, the birthplace of Saints Benedict and Scholastica. Norcia, or Nursia, […]

Special Report

The Chartres Pentecost Pilgrimage of Christendom

May 31, 2016 Dorothy Cummings McLean 0

The Chartres Pilgrimage is famous among Catholics who habitually attend the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. For 34 years, tradition-loving pilgrims have followed a 70 mile route between the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris and […]

Analysis

“Amoris Laetitia’: The Good, the Disturbing, and the Torturous

April 10, 2016 Dorothy Cummings McLean 0

Before it was released, the Papal Exhortation Amoris Laetitia received many online giggles for its title alone, which could be translated variously as “The Joy of Love”, “The Joy of Sex” or even “The Exuberance […]

Opinion

Feminist celebrity on trial in Canada for sex assault

February 4, 2016 Dorothy Cummings McLean 0

Jian Ghomeshi, former Canadian pop star and national radio celebrity, is currently on trial in Toronto, Canada for sexual assault and choking with intent to overcome resistance. The accusations are at odds with Ghomeshi’s public […]

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