The Dispatch
What the Wall Street Journal didn’t print
On March 21, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy profile of the Pope as its “Saturday Essay.” The subtitle—“Pope Leo XIV pushes back against President Trump. [...]
How much emphasis on politics? And to what end?
Columns
People today expect politics to give more than it can, often to the point of secular utopianism. There are two basic reasons for that. The first is a decline in transcendental faith. People need an [...]
Disenchantment or Desecration? An interview with Carl R. Trueman
Books
Carl R. Trueman is a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, as well as a prolific author. Last year, we conversed [...]
Features
The Relevance of the Resurrection
Christ’s glorified body tells us that the promise of eternal life which Jesus’s death and resurrection has opened up for us results not in obliteration […]
Features
Claire Lai: “My dad wants people to reflect on Our Savior’s suffering for us…”
Claire Lai, daughter of imprisoned Hong Kong democracy advocate and devout Catholic convert Jimmy Lai, has become a prominent advocate for the release of her 78-year-old father, believing his conviction for colluding with foreign Chinese [...]
Essay
To Dwell in the Side of Christ
In his Introduction to the Devout Life, Saint Francis de Sales recounts the following story about the fourteenth-century saint Elzear of Sabran: When the blessed Elzear, Count of the Provence of Arian, had been long separated [...]
Essay
The Easter Triduum and Three Essentials
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son [...]
Essay
Recovering the Origins of Catholic Social Teaching, Part Two
Editor’s note: You can read Part One of this essay here. IV The best way to describe how matrimony and the family animate Leo’s magisterial approach to the social question is to speak of their [...]
Features
Opinion: Does God hear the prayers of warmongers?
Many are abuzz about Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily. In order to provide some context, let’s consider what Pete Hegseth prayed at the Pentagon last Wednesday, March 25th. In leading a Pentagon Christian service, [...]
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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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Fr Peter Morello, PhD:
Mt 12 11. Since the time of John the Baptist, up to the present, the kingdom of heaven has been…
Chris in Maryland:
William: Your “response” to Mr. Kalb’s essay has no connection with what Mr. Kalb is saying. You instead appear to…
meiron:
GW says: "Normality has certainly returned to the patterns of governance in the Vatican,..." Excuse moi? GW should define his…
