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Life from Light: Advent hope in a world of crushing darkness

December 19, 2018 Fr. Charles Fox 0

“This life was the light of the human race.” — John 1:4 If by profession or hobby you are a speleologist, then you probably already know that Vietnam is home to the world’s largest cave, called […]

The Dispatch

Analysis: How the Vatican is preparing for its February abuse summit

December 19, 2018 CNA Daily News 5

Vatican City, Dec 19, 2018 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Preparations in the Vatican are underway for a summit of the bishops to discuss the problem of clerical sexual abuse. The meeting, which will involve the […]

Analysis

Thoughts on five problematic passages in the Synod’s Final Document

October 30, 2018 Fr Nicholas Gregoris 17

While all sensible and faithful Catholics ought to be grateful that the worst fears of many about the Synod were not realized, there are still several elements of the Final Document that require comment and […]

Essay

A True Antagonist for a Broken World: Faith in a Secular Age

October 17, 2018 David Paul Deavel 3

I’m often asked by friends or by people who know that I teach Catholic Studies what I think is going on with the Catholic Church. It’s a long story and has changed. You have perhaps […]

Features

Ohio bishop: “We cannot allow scandals to impede our sharing of the Good News”

October 11, 2018 Jim Graves 11

Bishop Jeffrey Monforton, 55, is head of the Diocese of Steubenville in southeastern Ohio. He grew up in the Detroit suburbs, the oldest of three sons in a practicing Catholic family. His father was a […]

The Dispatch

Bishop James V. Johnston: “We have to address failure”

October 3, 2018 Russell E. Saltzman 8

James V. Johnston’s tenure as the seventh bishop of the diocese of Kansas City–St. Joseph, Missouri, may have begun September 15 of 2015, the day Pope Francis announced his appointment. But his actual episcopacy probably […]

General

A brief defense of Fr. Schall on Islam, Christianity, and intelligence

September 28, 2018 Brian Jones 6

In a recent essay at the Public Discourse, David Rahimi offered a critical review of Fr. James V. Schall’s recent book On Islam: A Chronological Record, 2002-2018 (Ignatius Press, 2018). While it is certainly the case […]

Essay

“The Lord upholds my life”: Reflections on 1968, the annus horribilis

September 22, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 10

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the graduation from St. Joseph High School in Toms River, New […]

Columns

To Rome through Mecca

September 6, 2018 James V. Schall, S.J. 4

It has long been the practice for Christians and Muslims to look at what they have in common. David Pinault suggests that a better way […]

The Dispatch

Benedict, Viganò, Francis, and McCarrick: Where things stand on nuncio’s allegations

September 3, 2018 Catholic News Agency 35

“On its face, the arc of Archbishop Viganò’s story is straightforward,” says JD Flynn of CNA, “but the the fallout from the Viganò testimony has […]

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As expected, there was widespread media coverage of the first cardinals appointed by Pope Francis last month. But only a few media outlets noted that one of the new cardinals, Archbishop of Perugia Gualtiero Bassetti, […]

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