The Dispatch
The reason and reality of the Nativity
Eventually, when the Incarnation of the Son of Man is rejected, the rejection of man inevitably follows. This abolition of man is what we are […]
C.S. Lewis
Essay
The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005. […]
The Dispatch
Chronological snobbery and the empty tomb
On the readings for Easter Sunday, The Resurrection of the Lord, April 1, 2018 […]
Chapp's Schtick
Contemplating Guardini’s manifesto of a melancholic
“Melancholy is too painful, reaches too deeply into the roots of human experience to permit us to leave it to the psychiatrists.” — Romano Guardini, The Human Experience (Cluny Media, 2018) The word “melancholy”, in its […]
News Briefs
How Tolkien influenced the conversion to Christianity of his friend C.S. Lewis
The exhibition “Tolkien: Man, Teacher, Author” runs through Feb. 11, 2024, at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. / Credit: Almudena Martínez-Bordiú/ACI Prensa
ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 23, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
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Books
A broadly catholic panorama for seriously Catholic readers
The late Fr. James Schall, S.J., was a master essayist, in the grand tradition of English letters. In the introduction to one of his collections of essays, Fr. Schall remarks: The chapters in this book […]
The Dispatch
Can we simply drop the Ascension story?
The Ascension of Jesus Christ, related in the Gospels of Mark and Luke and referred to throughout the New Testament, can be taken as something of an awkward anecdote in the Catholic canon. “And when […]
The Dispatch
Selfless love in the face of That Hideous Strength
In That Hideous Strength (1945), the third volume of his Space Trilogy (1938-1945), C. S. Lewis follows the diverging paths of newlyweds Mark and Jane Studdock as they become embroiled in the cosmic forces battling […]
Essay
Apocalypse Now: Living in Hope at the End of an Age
Tranquility in the Church is a rare and beautiful thing, with an emphasis on that word, “rare.” And this explains why two of my favorite saints are Francis of Assisi and Augustine of Hippo. Both […]
Columns
The evidence shows that anti-human beliefs are destroying lives
The recent ceremony at the White House for signing the so-called Respect for Marriage Act encapsulates the state of public thought today. The Act requires the federal and state governments to treat same-sex “marriages” as […]