Features

Propaganda and the Ukraine War

October 16, 2022 Father Jerry J. Pokorsky 41

The meaning of propaganda has evolved from simple advertising to promoting biased and misleading information. The art of gleaning facts from various propaganda outlets has become increasingly difficult. Indeed, the mainstream media have mostly become […]

The Dispatch

Evangelization: What and When?

September 21, 2022 George Weigel 15

At the “information meeting” of the College of Cardinals this past Aug. 29-30, there was considerable agreement that evangelization is Catholicism’s prime imperative for the 21st century — a consensus understandably gratifying to the author […]

The Dispatch

Wars and choices 

August 24, 2022 George Weigel 16

One of the more irritating tropes of this age in which sloganeering has replaced argumentation is the alleged distinction between “wars of choice” and “wars of necessity.” That distorted and distorting antinomy was first deployed […]