The Dispatch
We Grown Now is quiet, normal, and powerful
MPAA Rating: PG Reel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars We Grown Now opens with two kids, Malik (Blake James) and Eric (Gain Rameriz) struggling [...]
Spinning Balthasar
Analysis
Recently the name of Hans Urs von Balthasar has been invoked to defend the concept of a more “feminine” Church. On reading some reports it seems that the invocation has now become a meme and [...]
The Touch: On Saint Damien of Molokai and the love of Christ
Essay
A while ago, my wife and I were trying to find a movie that we hadn’t seen before. We settled on the film Molokai (1999). Though I had heard of Fr. Damien before and had [...]
Essay
The role of the diocesan curia and the mission of the Church
Note: The following essay is adapted from an Address to the Curia of the Diocese of Charleston delivered on April 25, 2024. If we take our time-machine back fifty years ago—or maybe only forty—I suspect [...]
Features
Finding Flannery: An evening with Wildcat, Ethan Hawke, and questions
The young man in the seat next to me at the Angelika Film Center in New York City turned to his friend a few minutes before Wildcat began. “So, what’s this movie about?” he asked. [...]
Essay
Transparently bad faith: Answering “LGBTQ” critics of Dignitas Infinita
I have been very sad since April 8, 2024, when the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith promulgated Dignitas Infinita, the Declaration on Human Dignity. I have felt the immense grief among LGBTQ people [...]
Columns
Backwards and forwards
Some things change, some don’t, and it can be hard to know what to do about it. Wise sayings point in different directions: “[I] beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to [...]
Books
Distorting Mirrors
As headlines daily remind us, antagonism towards Jews is the most enduring hatred in our world. The Lost Mirror: Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain examines one segment of this phenomenon at the time that [...]
Analysis
On that Associated Press piece and the future of the Church in America
Tim Sullivan’s recent piece for the Associated Press on the state of the Church in America has made the rounds in Catholic circles, and it feels like a generally accurate snapshot of where things are and [...]
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A week ago, the editors of the National Catholic Register published an editorial titled “It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art”. Their strong stance, they said, was “not an expedient surrender to iconoclasm or ‘cancel [...] -
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Outis:
You could extend that description to any Western nation ... and, I'm afraid, to China, too.
Deacon Edward Peitler:
James, this ought to be sent off to every bishop - eapecially the Bishop of Rome. Well said, indeed!
Fr. Rick:
This essay was the BEST article Fr.Peter ever wrote. It's fantastic and rings so true!
