Features
Memory, identity, and patriotism
As a beneficiary of IPN’s archives, a longtime friend of Poland, and a grateful recipient of that country’s highest award for contributions to Polish culture, […]
Karol Wojtyla
The Dispatch
“You have to decide.”
Father Karol Wojtyła’s signature phrase as a confessor and spiritual director was, “You have to decide.” And it had nothing to do with a notion being […]
The Dispatch
Motown and the turbocharged Church
Archbishop Vigneron and the priests and people of the Archdiocese of Detroit have faced the facts: Catholicism-by-osmosis – Catholicism passed along by the old ethno-cultural […]
The Dispatch
The Benedict Option and the Identity/Relevance Dilemma
Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation has certainly emerged as the most talked-about religious book of 2017. Within weeks of its publication, dozens of editorials, reviews, op-eds, and panel discussions […]