The Dispatch
The Vine, the Branches, and “Eternal Security”
On the Readings for Sunday, April 29, 2018, the Fifth Sunday of Easter […]
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The Dispatch
Musings on the gift and grace of conversion
“A convert is undeniably in favour with no party; he is looked at with distrust, contempt, and aversion by all. His former friends think him a good riddance, and his new friends are cold and […]
Analysis
Move over, Dan Brown; here come Spadaro and Figueroa!
My good friend Sandra Miesel, with whom I co-authored The Da Vinci Hoax years ago, was fond of starting out her talks about the mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code by saying: “Dan Brown does […]
Analysis
Beware the Fundamentalist, my brothers! … and shun the fractious Fomenters
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!” — “Jabberwocky,” by Lewis Carroll Pope Francis, right at the start of Amoris […]