The Dispatch
Catholic Composers: Hildegard von Bingen
The life of this mystic, composer, and saint was in many ways as tumultuous as the era in which she lived. […]
Theology
The Dispatch
Fides et ratio: An encyclical even more relevant today than it was in 1998
The philosophical currents that troubled John Paul II two decades ago and moved him to write Fides et ratio haven’t disappeared. […]
Books
A sorely needed theological justification of the truth of the Catholic faith
Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s book The Power of Truth: The Challenges to Catholic Doctrine and Morals Today consists of several essays on a variety of teachings that are currently in the limelight of the Church’s crisis—doctrinal, […]
The Dispatch
New book addresses key questions about Church’s teaching authority
Questions about authority have been long debated and have been at heart of much conflict and strife throughout history, in both secular and religious contexts. Who has the authority in a given situation? How can […]
Editorial
In gratitude for the gift of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”
How I learned that reading and studying the Catechism, Church doctrine and dogma, and theology are not ultimately about knowing things or facts but about knowing […]
Sojourns with Schall
“The Light of Christ” is far more than an “Introduction”
Fr. Thomas Joseph White’s new book is an erudite, rich, and accessible guide to Catholicism that demonstrates in the inner cohesion and profound logic of the […]
Interview
“We cannot love what do not know”: An interview with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
“Catholic dogmas,” says the author of The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism, “are intellectual sign-posts: teachings that point us toward divine truth and that […]
Books
A lucid, insightful tour through the principles of ecumenism
Peter Kreeft’s Catholics and Protestants: What Can We Learn from Each Other? emphasizes that Christ’s “Church will become wholly whole when it becomes wholly holy.” […]
Features
Conflicts, campuses, and the return to Catholic commitments
More and more academic institutions—Duke Divinity School, Notre Dame, the University of St. Thomas in Houston, and Providence College in Rhode Island, to name just a few Christian schools, and just from the past two […]