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Paul Senz has an undergraduate degree from the University of Portland in music and theology and earned a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry from the same university. He has contributed to Catholic World Report, Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly, The Priest Magazine, National Catholic Register, Catholic Herald, and other outlets. Paul lives in Elk City, OK, with his wife and their four children.
The Dispatch

New book addresses key questions about Church’s teaching authority

January 16, 2019 Paul Senz 4

Questions about authority have been long debated and have been at heart of much conflict and strife throughout history, in both secular and religious contexts. Who has the authority in a given situation? How can […]

The Dispatch

“We must make our home in Gethsemane”: Reflecting on the Passion in troubled times

November 13, 2018 Paul Senz 1

Catholics are sometimes criticized for our emphasis on the Passion and death of Jesus Christ—crucifixes, Stations of the Cross, the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, and so on. This is not merely some sort of […]

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How one Protestant’s pursuit of the Fourth Cup led him to the Catholic Church

September 25, 2018 Paul Senz 2

Dr. Scott Hahn has one of the most well-known conversion stories in recent memory, having made his way, over the course of years, from Presbyterianism and virulent anti-Catholicism to the Catholic Church. (The conversion story […]

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Living the Marian Option in an age of anti-Mary

July 27, 2018 Paul Senz 3

“Women have opened themselves up to a spirit that in no way reflects the values we can attribute to Our Lady. There is open opposition […]

Features

“Without the Eucharist, we can’t exist”: Reviving beauty and reverence in the Mass

July 19, 2018 Paul Senz 5

The annual Sacred Liturgy Conference – with inspiring talks, gorgeous music, and beautiful liturgies – comes again to western Oregon […]

Features

Bishop Athanasius Schneider discusses liturgy, priesthood, doctrinal confusion, immigration, Synod on the Youth

July 6, 2018 Paul Senz 9

“When people are really persecuted, you need to help them. But as for the phenomenon of the European so-called immigration, it is clear and evident […]

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Going “further up and further in” to Narnia with Joseph Pearce

May 8, 2018 Paul Senz 1

“In reading The Chronicles of Narnia,” says the prolific biographer and critic, “we find ourselves in the presence of great and necessary truths.” […]

Interview

Ross Douthat on Francis’ pontificate: “We live in interesting times as Catholics”

April 18, 2018 Paul Senz 12

The New York Times columnist and author of To Change the Church discusses his new book on the Pope, and what he hopes his liberal and secular […]

The Dispatch

Catholicism during the Colonial period: An interview with Fr. Charles Connor

March 22, 2018 Paul Senz 4

“I really don’t think,” says Fr. Connor, author of a new history of Catholicism during the colonial period, “our Catholic people know sufficiently how much […]

Features

The story of The Godmother, advisor to Pope Pius XII

January 3, 2018 Paul Senz 10

Pope Pius XII “did more than anybody in the world ever did for the Jews,” says Fr. Charles Murr, author of a book about his […]

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