2017 Archives - The Catholic Thing


A Song on the End of the World

Czeslaw Milosz

Wednesday, January 3, 2018


Christmas Poem

G.K. Chesterton

Friday, December 22, 2017


Noël! Noël! Noël! Noël!

Hilaire Belloc

Thursday, December 21, 2017


The dove descending

T.S. Eliot

Wednesday, December 20, 2017


2 + 2 = 4. . .

David Warren

Tuesday, December 19, 2017


Concerning the Our Father

Simone Weil

Monday, December 18, 2017


Rejecting Deism

Pope Leo XII

Thursday, December 14, 2017


Catholics and politics

Emma Green

Thursday, December 14, 2017


On ecumenical dialogue

Pope Benedict XVI

Wednesday, December 13, 2017


Mercy, awe not comfort

Denise Levertov

Tuesday, December 12, 2017


Paradise Lost

John Milton

Monday, December 11, 2017


Love the truth

Robert T. Miller

Friday, December 8, 2017


Music matters

Damian Thompson

Thursday, December 7, 2017


The Pillar of the Cloud

John Henry Newman

Wednesday, December 6, 2017


They also serve

Tuesday, December 5, 2017


Nativity

John Donne

Monday, December 4, 2017


Lukewarm? Fall in love

Russell Shaw

Friday, December 1, 2017


Work tirelessly for reconciliation

Pope Francis

Thursday, November 30, 2017


At the Wedding March

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Wednesday, November 29, 2017


Catholicism and conversion

G.K. Chesterton

Tuesday, November 28, 2017


Death, be not proud

John Donne

Monday, November 27, 2017


Prayer of thanksgiving for the Eucharist

St. Thoma Aquinas

Thursday, November 23, 2017


Jesus on Hell

Msgr Charles Pope

Wednesday, November 22, 2017


God’s plan for Muslims

Robert Spencer

Tuesday, November 21, 2017


Don’t Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve

Adam Zagajewski

Monday, November 20, 2017


On praying the Rosary

Ven. Fulton J. Sheen

Thursday, November 16, 2017


A song on the end of the world

Czeslaw Milosz

Wednesday, November 15, 2017


To be or not to be

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

Tuesday, November 14, 2017


Grief feels like fear

C.S. Lewis

Monday, November 13, 2017


Rules for writing

George Orwell

Friday, November 10, 2017


What keeps the heart open

John Henry Newman

Thursday, November 9, 2017


Truth without preparation of heart

John Henry Newman

Wednesday, November 8, 2017


Care not for popular opinion

John Heny Newman

Tuesday, November 7, 2017


Unreal words

John Henry Newman

Monday, November 6, 2017


The Gospel according to St. Paul

Romans 1

Friday, November 3, 2017


The Ballad of the Goodly Fere

Ezra Pound

Wednesday, November 1, 2017


The infinite

Giacomo Leopardi

Tuesday, October 31, 2017


The World Turned Upside Down

17th-Century English Ballad

Friday, October 27, 2017


We shall not cease from exploration

T. S. Eliot

Thursday, October 26, 2017


The mission of Catholic education

Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts

Wednesday, October 25, 2017


The dove descending

T. S. Eliot

Tuesday, October 24, 2017


Beware predicting the future

Joseph Ratzinger

Monday, October 23, 2017


Prophecy

Friday, October 20, 2017


The auroras of autumn

Wallace Stevens

Thursday, October 19, 2017


On the reforms of Pope St. Gregory VII (c. 1080) 

G.K. Chesterton  

Wednesday, October 18, 2017


The Angel with the Broken Wing

Dana Gioia

Tuesday, October 17, 2017


On the dignity and vocation of women

St. John Paul II

Friday, October 13, 2017


The press and propaganda

Hilaire Belloc

Thursday, October 12, 2017


Rescuing the person from turmoil 

John Paul II (Centesimus Annus)

Wednesday, October 11, 2017


Gentleness, Peacefulness, Contentedness

St. Paul to the Philippians

Tuesday, October 10, 2017