Essay
Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday
Since all human sin has its origins in that “original” sin of our first parents, let’s go back to that very beginning. […]
Adam and Eve
Columns
Tending God’s Garden: Adam’s Vocation and Ours
Over the past few months, much of my time and energy has been devoted to a side project exploring God’s two books through the lens of Pope Benedict’s dialogue with atheism. Now, however, I’d like […]
The Dispatch
The Mystery of Creation and the Sacrament of Marriage
Readings: • Gen 2:18-24 • Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 2:9-11 • Mk 10:2-16 “No human institution,” writes Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez in Male and Female He Created Them (Ignatius Press, 2003), “is […]
Columns
Creation’s Rebellion: What changed after the Fall?
When faced with the question of why there is so much suffering in the world, the default Christian answer is because of Adam’s sin. This belief is certainly not without warrant. Indeed, a number of […]
News Briefs
Pope Francis: One must never dialogue with the devil
Pope Francis delivers his general audience address to pilgrims in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on Dec. 27, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media
Rome Newsroom, Dec 27, 2023 / 09:10 am (CNA).
Pope Francis inaugurated a new catechetical serie… […]
The Dispatch
Full text of Bishop Paul Coakley’s pastoral letter on gender dysphoria, transgender movement
Archbishop Paul Coakley. Courtesy photo. / null
Oklahoma City, Okla., May 1, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Editor’s note: Below is the full text of Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley’s pastoral letter “On the Unity of the Body and Soul: Accompan… […]
The Dispatch
The Immaculate Conception and the seamless garment of doctrine
Many Catholics misunderstand the meaning of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is also the patronal feast of our nation. In their minds they confuse the Immaculate Conception of […]
The Dispatch
Genesis, Original Sin, and Original Happiness
Throughout both creation accounts, the emphasis is on the order, beauty and happiness which resulted from God’s creative activity. Often, people think of original sin when they think of Genesis, but a more basic theme […]
The Dispatch
Four basic truths about Genesis and Creation
Editor’s note: The following homily preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on February 12, 2019, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan. Beginning yesterday and for the next couple of […]
Columns
Who is government for?
The problem with government today is that it leaves out human beings. That’s not an oversight. It follows from the basic principles on which public thought is now carried on. The kind of thought now […]