Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are Columbus and the Crisis of the West and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.

The German Church Divided

Monday, May 7, 2018


Decimo Anno

Wednesday, May 2, 2018


Of Astronomical Significance

Monday, April 23, 2018


Pope Francis’ Call to Holiness

Wednesday, April 11, 2018


Two Youths

Monday, March 26, 2018


God Save Them

Monday, March 19, 2018


New Saints: Paul VI and Oscar Romero

Monday, March 12, 2018


Three Crises – and Three Opportunities

Monday, February 26, 2018


1968 at 50

Monday, February 12, 2018


How to Trust Your Feelings

Saturday, February 3, 2018


The China Syndrome

Monday, January 29, 2018


Saving Babies and Time Off in Purgatory

Thursday, January 18, 2018


Schall at Ninety

Bruce Fingerhut / Fr. Robert Sokolowski / Hadley Arkes / Matthew Hanley / Daniel J. Mahoney / Brad Miner / Fr. Gerald E. Murray / Michael Pakaluk / Fr. Paul D. Scalia / Cynthia Searcy / David Walsh / David Warren

Tuesday, January 16, 2018


The World’s Desire

Sunday, December 24, 2017


In Other Words

Monday, December 18, 2017


“The Dictator Pope”

Wednesday, December 6, 2017


Memento Mori – and More

Monday, November 27, 2017


Remembering Depths and Heights

Monday, November 20, 2017


Chronic Confusion Worse Confounded

Monday, November 6, 2017


Something Stirring in the West?

Monday, October 23, 2017


The Freudian Slip – and Fall

Monday, October 16, 2017


Fatima the Uncanny

Saturday, October 14, 2017


Perspective on the Person

Wednesday, October 11, 2017


A Light in the Darkness

Tuesday, October 3, 2017


Pope Francis, Fr. Martin, and Faith without Reason

Monday, September 25, 2017


Is it 1960 Again?

Monday, September 11, 2017


The Recent Popes on Work and Workers

Robert Royal, ed.

Monday, September 4, 2017


Goodbye Columbus

Monday, August 28, 2017


On Fields of Praise

Monday, August 14, 2017


Witness to Truth at 75

Wednesday, August 9, 2017


Are Americans from Mars?

Monday, July 17, 2017


What’s Right with the World

Tuesday, July 4, 2017


Silence. Exile. Cunning.

Monday, June 19, 2017


The Other Europe

Thursday, June 1, 2017


Defending Life in Rome

Monday, May 22, 2017


TCT, Now More Than Ever

Sunday, May 14, 2017


Papal Poetics

Thursday, May 11, 2017


Suffering Souls

Thursday, April 27, 2017


The Passion and the Easter Sky Hook

Monday, April 10, 2017


Crisis – and Opportunity?

Monday, March 27, 2017


A Lesson on Sex – from Dante

Monday, March 13, 2017


Between Two Worlds

Friday, March 3, 2017


An Examination of Conscience

Wednesday, March 1, 2017


An Odd Way to Run a Pontifical Academy

Tuesday, February 28, 2017


Bioextinction Workshop: Report One

Monday, February 27, 2017


Life Comes from the Archbishop

Thursday, February 23, 2017


Remembering Michael Novak

/ Michael Pakaluk / Robert Royal

Monday, February 20, 2017


The Slandering of Cardinal Burke

Monday, February 13, 2017


Fixing Social Insecurity

Wednesday, January 25, 2017


The Future of the Past

Monday, January 2, 2017