The Dispatch
Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation
Christ promised to maintain his Church in the truth (John 8.32; John 16.3). Has that promise been broken? […]
Ash Wednesday
The Dispatch
Pork Roll, Lent, and Catholic identity
Lent is the perfect time, or as Isaiah 49.8 puts it, the “acceptable time,” to begin a journey of Christian difference. […]
Essay
“Because I do not hope to turn again…”: On the attraction of Ash Wednesday
What is this strange fascination with ashes? Today in Grand Central Station, if it was a typical Ash Wednesday, the priests of St. Agnes Church imposed ashes on the foreheads of over 20,000 people, which […]