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Jan 9, 2025 | 
wsj.com | Robert A. Sirico
When I became pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 2012, I inherited a parish on the brink of collapse. Established in 1904 by Polish immigrants, the parish had seen its once-thriving community move to the suburbs or abandon its faith. What remained was a crumbling rectory, a neglected church and a school with 68 students, down from about 900 in the mid-1960s. The parish was slated to merge with another, and the bishop gave me the option to shutter the school.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Flagg Taylor |Robert A. Sirico |Wilson Shirley
It’s past time to banish the American ruling class. Published December 2, 2024 If there’s a word for the guy with the hook who yanks vaudeville performers off the stage after they’ve overstayed their welcome, I’m the premature version of that. Too eager. When Barack Obama wrested the Democratic nomination from Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008, I wrote that I was grateful at least that we wouldn’t have to write about the Clintons anymore.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Michael Warren |Robert A. Sirico |Wilson Shirley
Published December 1, 2024 For your Thanksgiving entertainment, Jonah rethinks his latest conversation with his non-mentor Yuval Levin and ruminates on how both the left and the right Gesellschaft all the Gemeinschaft.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Robert A. Sirico |Wilson Shirley |Kevin Williamson
How remembering the labor of our forbears gives us hope for the future. Published December 1, 2024 • Updated November 30, 2024 Hello and happy Thanksgiving (even if belated)! I hope your food was good and plentiful, and the time with loved ones has been rewarding. And for those for whom the holidays are not so easy, that you still experienced care from others.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Robert A. Sirico |Kevin Williamson |Michael Reneau |Angela Lu Fulton
Today’s populists are giving up on a free society. Published December 1, 2024 • Updated November 30, 2024 In the current era of constant debate, shifting ideologies, and intense elections, it may be that holiday get-togethers can offer something more than a continuation of the same.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Bonnie Kristian |Robert A. Sirico |Daniel Darling
By and Published November 3, 2024 It’d be nice to say we are less than 48 hours from the end of the nastiness of this election cycle, but to do so would be naive. For one, because the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump looks to be so tight, we are likely still several days away from knowing who will occupy the Oval Office next—and how much turmoil we’ll have to go through to get to Inauguration Day.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Luis Parrales |Michael Reneau |Robert A. Sirico |Nick Ripatrazone
The new movie starring Ralph Fiennes is full of shock and light on Catholicism. Published November 3, 2024 Editor’s note: Spoilers ahead. The best telenovelas are both wildly entertaining and unabashedly unrealistic. Emphasis on the unabashedly. They’re stuffed with overwrought performances, gaudy music, and especially bizarre plot points that often include a mix of forbidden romance, unveiled parentage, vengeful murders, rare illnesses, descents into madness, and more.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Robert A. Sirico |Nadya Williams |Paul Miller
By and Published October 27, 2024 Happy Sunday. Earlier this weekend in Rome, participants wrapped up meetings that Pope Francis earlier this year said he hoped would be “the permanent way of acting in the church”: the Synod on Synodality. But what is it, why has it taken so long, and what’s the “so what?” of it all?
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Robert A. Sirico |Daniel Darling |Samuel James
What is the Catholic Church’s most recent synod trying to accomplish? By and Published October 27, 2024 Happy Sunday. Earlier this weekend in Rome, participants wrapped up meetings that Pope Francis earlier this year said he hoped would be “the permanent way of acting in the church”: the Synod on Synodality. But what is it, why has it taken so long, and what’s the “so what?” of it all?
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Kristina Millare |Robert A. Sirico
Cardinal Bo: Bishops worldwide should implement ‘diocesan synods’ in home countries By Kristina Millare for CNA Cardinal Charles Bo speaks with journalists at a Synod on Synodality press briefing on Oct. 17, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, Oct 17, 2024 / 17:10 pm (CNA).
