Commentary Archives - The Catholic Thing


How cloistered, silent Carthusians made a big noise with a Chartreuse shortage

Friday, April 26, 2024


‘Fr. Justin,’ AI priest, ‘defrocked’

Friday, April 26, 2024


Columbia chaplain: ‘Antisemitism must be stopped’

Thursday, April 25, 2024


American bishops shout “Fire!” after helping to set the blaze

Thursday, April 25, 2024


‘The Habsburg Way’: Lessons for Today, From Openness to Life to How to Die Well

Wednesday, April 24, 2024


Auschwitz survivor: antisemitism is a ‘cancer’ spreading across America

Wednesday, April 24, 2024


The Carthusians of Vermont

Tuesday, April 23, 2024


The Vatican’s 36-hour week

Tuesday, April 23, 2024


National Public Radio chief says reporters “are not focused on the truth”

Monday, April 22, 2024


Katherine Pakaluk and the women defying the ‘birth dearth’

Monday, April 22, 2024


On excommunication

Friday, April 19, 2024


What is humanity’s infinite dignity?

Friday, April 19, 2024


Trust the science, not the scientists

Thursday, April 18, 2024


Resisting LGBTQ madness in Catholic colleges

Thursday, April 18, 2024


Spinning Balthasar

Wednesday, April 17, 2024


Mother Cabrini was booked on Titanic

Wednesday, April 17, 2024


Time to remove Rupnik’s art

Tuesday, April 16, 2024


Nine facts about U.S. Catholics

Tuesday, April 16, 2024


The Populist Revolt: Europe’s Had Enough!

Monday, April 15, 2024


Divine dignity alone is strictly infinite

Monday, April 15, 2024


A voice unheard: The absence of deacons at the Synod

Friday, April 12, 2024


The rational credibility of Christianity

Friday, April 12, 2024


Why ‘Infinite Dignity’ falls short

Thursday, April 11, 2024


Ideology and blasphemy in Russia

Thursday, April 11, 2024


An amazingly successful Christocentric parish

Wednesday, April 10, 2024


Christians should welcome stricter border controls

Wednesday, April 10, 2024


The problem with saying ‘sex assigned at birth’

Tuesday, April 9, 2024


Dorothy Day inspires Pennsylvania’s Catholic Worker Farm

Tuesday, April 9, 2024


Today’s total eclipse – and the Catholic faith

Monday, April 8, 2024


Caitlin Clark: How the Catholic basketball star captivated America

Monday, April 8, 2024


The faith of the next generation

Friday, April 5, 2024


Election ’24: Trumpite Evangelicalism or Bidenist Catholicism?

Friday, April 5, 2024


The rise of “normophobia”

Thursday, April 4, 2024


Synodality: Where is Catholic mystery?

Thursday, April 4, 2024


What the Bible says about the pope

Wednesday, April 3, 2024


John Finlay’s Prayer to the Father

Wednesday, April 3, 2024


The remarkable legacies of ordinary Catholic women

Tuesday, April 2, 2024


The Shroud: Evidence of Jesus’ Resurrection

Tuesday, April 2, 2024


Concrete

Friday, March 29, 2024


Easter, creation, and holiness

Friday, March 29, 2024


Assessing ‘Fiducia supplicans’: the first 100 days

Thursday, March 28, 2024


The case against the abortion pill

Thursday, March 28, 2024


Why the Left is silent on Hamas atrocities

Wednesday, March 27, 2024


Why Jesus said no to a crucifixion painkiller

Wednesday, March 27, 2024


Mother Angelica’s 5 suggestions for Holy Week

Tuesday, March 26, 2024


Defying America’s birth dearth: Catherine Pakaluk speaks out

Tuesday, March 26, 2024


Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in His Passion

Monday, March 25, 2024


Google is mapping places and tracking preferences and doesn’t like what it sees

Monday, March 25, 2024


Can We Be Frank About the Catholic School Crisis?

Friday, March 22, 2024


African cardinal: ‘Fiducia supplicans’ is ‘cultural colonization, Western imperialism’

Friday, March 22, 2024