Essay
Labor Day Lessons from St. Teresa of Calcutta
Mother Teresa teaches us that work must be based in love in order to be truly fruitful. This truth applies to all work, whether one […]
Benedict XVI
Analysis
The Nashville Statement is part of an ecumenical “ecology of man”
The major theme of the Nashville Declaration, what the Catholic tradition calls an “ecological conversion,” is in complete accord with the Catechism of the Catholic […]
The Dispatch
Making sense of Pope Francis’ statement about “the liturgical reform”
The Holy Father is focusing his (and our) attention on the rational substance of the reform process. […]
The Dispatch
The astonishing, sometimes tragic story of Antoni Gaudí’s fantastic obsession
In his book, The Sagrada Família: The Astonishing Story of Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece, Dutch art historian Gijs van Hensbergen has given us a “biography” of […]
The Dispatch
How Spadaro and Figueroa misunderstand the motto “In God We Trust”
In my post last week, I focused on how Antonio Spadaro, S.J., and Marcelo Figueroa, in their much discussed essay “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism,” misread and even misrepresent the matter of religious liberty in the United States. […]
The Dispatch
Archbishop Ladaria has consistent record of upholding Church teaching on marriage, sexual morality
The announcement on July 1, 2017, that Pope Francis has appointed curial Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer as the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith surprised even many Vatican watchers […]
Essay
Authority, anthropology, and the bourgeois morality of Fr. James Martin
“About sex especially men are born unbalanced; we might almost say men are born mad. They scarcely reach sanity till they reach sanctity.” — G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man “For this reason the Second Vatican […]
The Dispatch
Death is inevitable, but damnation is not
Readings: • Jer 20:10-13 • Psa 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35 • Rom 5:12-15 • Matt 10:26-33 Recently, while watching a basketball game on television, I was horrified when a commercial came on that was completely inappropriate […]
Features
Manchester, London, and the goals of Islam
“In Islam and the Qur’an there is everything. Parts that actually speak of peace are mixed with outrageous claims that run in the opposite sense, especially with regard to those who have different beliefs. Therefore, […]
The Dispatch
The Gospel of the Trinity: “God is Love”
Readings: • Ex 34:4B-6, 8-9 • Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 • 2 Cor 13:11-13 • Jn 3:16-18 “The divine nature,” wrote St. Thomas Aquinas, “is really and entirely identical with each of the […]