The Dispatch
Francis was never pope? Call me unpersuaded.
While Universi Dominici Gregis is special law for a special event, it is not independent of the rest of canon law; it must be read in […]
Benedict XVI
Features
A Conversation with a Traditional Catholic
“After our first Traditional Latin Mass,” says Matthew Arnold, author of Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, “I asked Betty, a cradle Catholic, her opinion. She […]
The Dispatch
A journalist’s “inside look” at the papacy of Benedict XVI
Paul Badde’s new book tells the story of a dramatic papacy as it unfolded. […]
Essay
On teaching the liberal arts
My maturation as a professor came when I learned to love ideas more by way of coming to love them through—in pilgrimage with, in communion […]
The Dispatch
Peter Claver vs. Immanuel Kant
The Church has three fundamental and mutually implicative tasks: to care for the poor, to worship God, and to evangelize. […]
Features
The life and legacy of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
The former cardinal archbishop of Westminster, who died on September 1st, had a significant and sometimes controversial role in the Church in Britain for four […]
The Dispatch
Eastern and Western liturgy: Natural harmony or unnatural dissonance?
Pope Francis’ speech on the liturgical reform delivered on August 24, 2017 raises questions about both liturgy and ecumenism. […]
Ecclesia et Civitas
Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine
The current situation of growing soft totalitarianism is too recent and too disturbing for its implications for Catholic social action to have been adequately understood […]
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. […]