Essay
Christ, the Eternal High Priest, and the meaning of priestly celibacy
It is the Church’s hope and desire that her celibate clergy (and her consecrated religious, too) would show forth to the world, in a unique […]
Eucharist
The Dispatch
The Seven Last Words from the Cross: “I Thirst!”
For what does He thirst? Surely not for the narcotic mentioned in Mark 15:36. No, Jesus thirsts for more important things, but the Cross separates […]
Analysis
Critics misrepresent Cardinal Sarah’s call for reverence in receiving Holy Communion
Why are so many avoiding the key question: Why has belief in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist diminished in recent decades? […]
The Dispatch
“America” magazine’s survey of women in the Church
An intriguing finding of the survey is that most Catholic women consider the care for the poor and the Eucharist as the two most essential […]
Essay
Divinely Planned Obsolescence
Why the Temple in Jerusalem will never be rebuilt and how the Sacrifice of the Mass is “the source and summit of evangelization”. […]
The Dispatch
Canon 844 is not a snag on which Canon 915 might unravel
Most discussants in the matter of “divorced and remarried Eastern Orthodox Christians receiving Eucharist in a Catholic church routinely but incorrectly assume that one’s “proper disposition” for a […]
The Dispatch
Ecumenism and the Eucharist
Attempts to achieve Christian unity are noble things, for those outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church who are baptized properly are indeed Christians. […]
The Dispatch
A corrective to some of Prof. Buttiglione’s recent assertions about canon law
Buttiglione has misunderstood and/or misrepresented some important, if this time more subtle, canonical points in his recent critique of the Correctio Filialis. […]