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The Dispatch

Catholic lessons from an Anglican royal wedding

May 20, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 22

In Cardinal Newman’s nineteenth century, the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church were much closer to each other, both doctrinally and morally, than in the […]

The Dispatch

Dating as a counter-cultural project

April 19, 2018 Nick Olszyk 4

A new documentary from PureFlix and Paulist Productions follows the lives of five single Christians over the course of a year as they attempt to […]

The Dispatch

Misunderstanding NFP: Where Catholics and non-Catholics get it wrong

March 28, 2018 Catholic News Agency 23

Dr. Janet Smith, a professor at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and a Catholic speaker and author on marriage and family, on what Humanae Vitae […]

Analysis

“Humanae Vitae” and the Catholic Church in England: Signs of hope

March 26, 2018 Piers Shepherd 5

Fifty years after Humanae Vitae’s promulgation, promoting its teaching still brings immense challenges. But the news isn’t all bad. […]

Essay

The Francis Reformation

February 28, 2018 Dr. Douglas Farrow 43

We will not get far by asking whether the Church is to be a Church of the poor and a Church of the merciful. Of […]

The Dispatch

Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation

February 21, 2018 George Weigel 6

Christ promised to maintain his Church in the truth (John 8.32; John 16.3). Has that promise been broken? […]

The Dispatch

“Humanae Vitae” and the key to the mighty mystery of sex

February 5, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 7

St. Paul rhapsodized on the beauty of marital love as a great mystery, indeed the sign of Christ’s love for His Church. Contraceptive intercourse, on […]

Features

“Ecclesial reception” in the Era of Francis

January 16, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 17

Out of more than 5,000 bishops in the universal Church, I don’t think we can consider supporters of the problematic practice of permitting divorced and remarried […]

Editorial

Catholics aren’t obsessed with sex—they are obsessed with life

January 9, 2018 Carl E. Olson 31

There seems little doubt, at this point, that 2018 is going to witness yet another great clash over Paul VI’s encyclical—arguably the most contested and […]

Opinion

Sexploits and crisis: Is it 2002 revisited?

December 22, 2017 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 47

The current drama of Hollywood stars, media types, athletes and politicians is the fruit of the hyper-sexualization of society as a whole for decades at […]

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