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An examination of Archbishop Fernández’s erroneous positions on sexual morality

August 3, 2023 E. Christian Brugger 64

Argentine prelate Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect-elect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, should either recant his erroneous positions on sexual morality or resign his post at the DDF. A calm, competent, and clear-eyed […]

'The Crucifixion' by Giovanni Bellini (1501-03)
The Dispatch

The Cross divides because it demands a choice

November 19, 2022 Carl E. Olson 10

Readings: • 1 Sam 5:1-3 • Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 • Col 1:12-20 • Lk 23:35-43 “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I […]

History

“The Children of Disobedience”: America and the Second Great Awakening

October 29, 2022 Michael D. Greaney 17

Progressives and forward-looking elites pride themselves on being or becoming “woke.” In common with other advocates of supposedly new and improved products and ideas, however, contempt for anything other than their own opinions often leads […]

The Dispatch

Pius XI, Saint Joseph, and Joseph Stalin

March 19, 2022 Michael J. Nader 8

Eighty-five years ago this week, Pope Pius XI issued two encyclicals condemning two of the most brutal regimes in history: Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union.  Pius released Mit Brennender Sorge (“On the Church and […]

Books

Ask Your Husband is a superficial, ideological, and incoherent “guide”

March 13, 2022 Abigail Favale, Ph.D. 301

Reading Stephanie C. Gordon’s Ask Your Husband: A Catholic Guide to Femininity feels like a meandering stroll down a familiar lane. I was raised in conservative evangelicalism, and Gordon echoes many of the messages I […]

The Dispatch

Extra, extra! News and tidings, February 8, 2022

February 8, 2022 CWR Staff 4

• The 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki: The air was electric with a holy silence, all Nagasaki dumb with grief, as the parade of martyrs marched past toward the hilltop where their crosses waited. The Galleon, […]

Features

McCarrick and theological dissent in the Sixties: Observations of a contemporary

December 13, 2019 John F. Kippley 33

The investigation into how the former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was promoted up to the level he enjoyed before his misdeeds became public knowledge is necessary and may yield helpful results. However, besides the question of […]

Columns

Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 3

December 8, 2019 Joseph G. Trabbic 14

This is the third and last part of my discussion of Thomism and political liberalism. From the first two essays (see here and here) I think that we can conclude that one important thing that […]

'The Crucifixion' by Giovanni Bellini (1501-03)
The Dispatch

Christ the King, Exalted by the Cross

November 23, 2019 Carl E. Olson 0

Readings: • 1 Sam 5:1-3 • Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 • Col 1:12-20 • Lk 23:35-43 “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I […]

Clark on China

China, politics, faith, and the liturgical village: Cardinal Joseph Zen in context

June 10, 2019 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 8

Editor’s note: During the week of May 28 to 31, 2019, several hundred Catholic lay faithful, priests, deacons, nuns, and three bishops gathered at Spokane, Washington, for the annual Sacred Liturgy Conference. The conference was […]

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A July 6th press release from the USCCB reports on recent Catholic-Jewish discussion focused, in part, on a ground-breaking annotated New Testament: The semi-annual consultation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops/National Council of Synagogues (USCCB/NCS) discussed […]

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