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Being Frank about Francis
The McCarrick scandal, let us all admit, is just one powerful gust in the swirling tempest that now surrounds Francis and threatens to capsize both […]
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Essay
Abusing Zacchaeus
Fr. James Martin’s approaches to interpreting Scripture have a long pedigree in Western Christianity; they’re largely rooted in the modernism of liberal Protestantism. […]
Essay
Why we stay, and the Vigano Testimony
The Church’s current crisis is a crisis of fidelity and a crisis of holiness, a crisis of infidelity and a crisis of sin. It is […]
The Dispatch
“My Flesh for the life of the world”: The Eucharist and Evangelization
The work of Jesus—His self-giving for the life of the world—is to become our work as well. […]
The Dispatch
You are Who you eat: “Let Christ be eaten…”
On the Readings for August 19, 2018 […]
The Dispatch
Recovering the fourfold sense of Scripture in John 6
The story recounted in John 6 is both miraculous and sacrificial, two things modernity rejects but to which the Church holds fast. […]
Essay
Hope in the Face of Crisis
Jesus Christ is both the source and the object of our hope. Even during times of crisis, he remains with us as he promised he […]
Essay
The public challenge of the Catholic Faith
Catholic citizens have an indispensable contribution to make to the national discourse in the present day, one that could prove to be the salvation of […]
The Dispatch
Answering the divine call to participate in the mercy of God
On the Readings for Sunday, June 15, 2018 […]
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Pascal’s Wager, certitude and doubt, and the human condition
“The wager,” says Thomas S. Hibbs, author of a new book on Pascal’s philosophy and faith, “demands a kind of self-transformation of one’s passions, a […]