Scott Salvato

1 month ago | thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Michael Warren |Scott Salvato

‘This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.’ By and Published April 22, 2025 Sarah Isgur and David French react to Donald Trump’s latest legal battles and talk to friend of the pod Judge Amul Thapar about his new wellness Substack.

Mar 8, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Nic Rowan |Michael Reneau |Scott Salvato |Victoria Holmes

For most Catholics in late medieval England, confession was an annual affair undertaken during Lent. Lines were long, and priests and penitents alike were impatient to get it over with. “Pastoral realism therefore demanded that the confession be kept within manageable dimensions,” wrote the Irish historian Eamon Duffy in 1992. “In a time-honoured formula the penitent was to be brief, be brutal, be gone.”James M.