The Dispatch
Lent: a journey, an encounter, a time of purification
Readings: • Ex 17:3-7 • Psa 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 5:1-2, 5-8 • Jn 4:5-42 Lent is not merely a season, but a journey, [...]
Silence of the Gods chronicles the obscure paganism of eastern Europe
Books
In the secular recounting of the history of the West, it is commonly asserted that Christianity held a many-centuries-long dominance over the peoples of Europe, stifling (supposedly) intellectual and moral development because of its superstitious [...]
“Go to Mass and confession frequently”: Bishop Francis Malone reflects on faith, vocations, family
Features
Bishop Francis Malone, 75, has served as Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, since 2020. Shreveport is the northernmost of the seven dioceses of Louisiana and serves nearly 40,000 Catholics. Shreveport borders Arkansas to its north, with [...]
Analysis
Instrumentality in Sin and Silicon
The use and proliferation of artificial intelligence technology (AI) can generate vice and, ultimately, sin. Not always, for AI is a fascinating product of human creativity that promises many practical benefits as well as harmful [...]
Essay
J.J. Scarisbrick, Life’s Happy Warrior—Requiescat in pace
John Joseph Scarisbrick, MBE, died peacefully on Saturday, February 28th, at 5:40 am with his two beloved daughters, Emma and Sarah, by his side. A towering figure in English Catholic life for over sixty years, [...]
Columns
Immigration, enforcement, and Catholics
Effectively, open borders are a bad idea. That’s true whether they result from explicit policy or from failure to enforce the law effectively. The population of the world outside the United States is about 8 [...]
Columns
Pope Leo, the Joshua Tree, and the Paschal Mystery
I recently returned from delivering a lecture at the annual Los Angeles religious education congress and, as is my custom when possible, turned it into a “bring-a-kid-to-work” adventure. This time, my middle-school daughter and I [...]
Essay
The State of Our Divided Union
I was rather disappointed in the recent State of the Union address, but not for the reasons many readers might think. I believe that most Americans watched it the way one watches a meticulously overproduced [...]
Features
Pro-life activist questions inclusion of Candace Owens in speaker’s bureau
Amanda Achtman is a Canadian Catholic pro-life advocate. Ethics Director for Canadian Physicians for Life and founder of the Dying to Meet You project, Achtman has built a reputation for herself as an articulate and [...]
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Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s [...] -
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DEIRDRE RUANE:
Lá breithe shona duit ón Eireann, Athair Bruno! Is brea liom 'prayers keep me young'; teachtaireacht an tabhachtach..
Opinion: Mirabelli v. Bonta comes with heavy interventionist baggage – seamasodalaigh:
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William:
What is the goal then? Achieve a secular democracy? I don’t see any Thomas Jefferson over there. The best we…
