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The Dispatch

Pro-abortion pundits cannot debunk the scientific facts about life, conception

February 28, 2019 Thomas R. Ascik 8

I can’t find anyone—including Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion media—who disagrees about what science has to say about the beginning of human life. What, you say that the March for Life caused the publishing of […]

The Dispatch

Civil war served cold

July 29, 2018 Russell E. Saltzman 11

Forty-two percent of Americans think it is  “likely” or “very likely” for a civil war to erupt within five years, about three years into the […]

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Pope Francis’ tough talk about media spin rings hollow

March 27, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 18

The Holy Father’s condemnation of those “who twist reality and invent stories for their own benefit, without concern for the good name of others” is […]

Features

Pope Francis and clericalism

March 9, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 13

Despite his repeated and vehement denunciations of clericalism, Francis’ more general remarks about the laity sometimes nevertheless exhibit a sort of clerical chauvinism. […]

Interview

This former Warner Bros. exec is making digital media work for the Church

February 8, 2018 Jeanette Flood 3

Matt Meeks, chief digital officer for the Archdiocese of LA, left a career in Hollywood to further the work of the Church in a new […]

The Dispatch

Francis, fake news, and “snake-tactics”

January 25, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 13

Fake news is fake. Bad press may be the result of very sound journalism. The problem is that the standard proposed by Pope Francis cannot […]

The Dispatch

As mainstream media loses ability to control abortion narrative, left-wing rage rises

January 19, 2018 Elise Ehrhard 19

In 1995, outside of a narrow talk radio audience, a few major networks controlled the cultural narrative about the pro-life movement. No longer. […]

The Dispatch

The Creative Catholic: Joanna Bogle

August 17, 2017 K. V. Turley 3

“Nothing is more important than writing truthfully.” […]

Editorial

Is Cardinal Pell “the quintessential scape-goat”? [Updated]

July 6, 2017 Carl E. Olson 49

I’m not an expert—not even close—on Australian politics or Catholicism Down Under, but over the past few years I’ve carried on correspondence with a number of Catholics in Australia. And these folks, all of them […]

The Dispatch

Did Jesus rise from the dead and go directly to heaven?

March 21, 2017 Carl E. Olson 4

The always excellent Terry Mattingly of Get Religion points out that the Associated Press reveals a bit of biblical and theological illiteracy in a March 20th piece about the renovations done to the shrine in […]

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