The Dispatch
You better watch out—St. Nicholas is coming to town
Everyone loves jolly ol’ Saint Nicholas. There is something romantic and cozy about telling Santa stories around the crackling fire. He is an icon of [...]
What Benedict XVI taught us about Israel—and why it matters now
Columns
When devout Catholic young people start approaching you, troubled by the possibility that God has abandoned the Jews and that they somehow stand behind our social ills, it becomes clear that something has gone deeply [...]
Artificial Womb Technology: Daedalus Revisited
Analysis
On May 30, 2025, Japanese researchers at Juntendo University (Bunkyō, Tokyo) pulled back the curtain on their model of artificial womb technology (AWT). Dubbed the EVE therapy system, this artificial womb, after being successfully tested [...]
Columns
Faith here and now
Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was largely right. Not all Americans buy into the whole of our national creed, but it’s real, and it dominates public life. It [...]
Analysis
Scrolling ourselves to death
The recent revelation that Meta employees privately compared themselves to drug pushers while the company suppressed evidence of severe mental health harms to children arrives with the subtlety of a fire alarm in a library. [...]
Features
Eastern Catholics in the United States: A Look at the Numbers
In Orientalium Ecclesiarum, the 1964 Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, the fathers of the Second Vatican Council declared: The Catholic Church holds in high esteem the institutions, liturgical rites, ecclesiastical traditions and the established standards of [...]
Features
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas discusses vocations, evangelization, transgenderism
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, 66, is the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio. He is originally from Philadelphia and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 1985. He lived in [...]
Essay
Embracing the Embarrassment of Advent
“It might be said of Advent that it is not for the faint of heart. To grasp the depth of the human predicament, one has to be willing to enter into the very worst.” — [...]
Essay
The debt we owe to the Mayflower pilgrims
When the Mayflower anchored off Cape Cod in November 1620, its passengers had already accomplished something remarkable. They had survived a perilous Atlantic crossing on a leaky vessel in freezing winds. Yet before they even [...]
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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...] -
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Timothy Olmsted:
I'll take the illicit Mass and sacraments of the Servants of the Holy Family over the invalid Masses that I…
Dr.Cajetan Coelho:
Happy feast. Saint Nicholas - Pray for.
Grand Rapids Mike:
Very nice article. Is there an approved Novena to our Lady of Champion.
