RECENT COLUMNS
NEWS
COMMENTARY
2018 Archives - Page 2 of 14 - The Catholic Thing
Pope Opens Trip With Remarks Against Abortion
Ian Fisher and Larry Rohter, NYTimes
Friday, October 23, 2020
Pope Francis Backs Civil Unions for Gay Couples
Robert Royal
Thursday, October 22, 2020
A message to the German bishops
Pope Pius XI
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The Offering of the New Law, the One Oblation Once Offered
Christina Rossetti
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The dove descending
T. S. Eliot
Monday, October 19, 2020
Obstacles to the value of life
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Let No One Be Proud, but Boast in the Cross of the Lord
St. Francis
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Judge not
G.K. Chesterton
Monday, October 12, 2020
Vespers
Louise Glück*
Friday, October 9, 2020
By their deeds. . .
William Shakespeare
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
A Christian humanism
St. John Paul II
Monday, October 5, 2020
The thinness of the new atheism
Theodore Dalrymple
Friday, October 2, 2020
The Candle Indoors
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Santa Clara Valley
Wendell Berry
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Religious freedom: On the ballot
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, National Catholic Register
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
An intolerable and hateful slavery
Pope Leo XIII
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
America isn’t America without black people
Ralph Ellison
Monday, September 28, 2020
Columbus and the Crisis of the West
Friday, September 25, 2020
Dangers of social media
Pope Francis
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
St. Thomas Aquinas on natural law
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985)
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Why God seeks men
Pope St. John Paul II
Friday, September 18, 2020
The End of the World
Dana Gioia
Thursday, September 17, 2020
The failure of rationalism
Pope St. John Paul II
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Dr. Robert Royal Named Inaugural Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies
Thomas More College
Monday, September 14, 2020
The work of salvation
Charles Péguy
Friday, September 11, 2020
Families in light and darkness
Pope St. John Paul II
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Errs not Nature from God’s gracious end
Alexander Pope
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
St Kevin and the Blackbird
Seamus Heaney
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Only man works
St. John Paul II, Laborem Exercens
Monday, September 7, 2020
The land of lost content
A. E. Housman
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Religious cowardice
St. John Henry Newman
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Frustrating the marriage act
Pope Pius XI
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
On ‘social justice’
T.S. Eliot
Friday, August 28, 2020
On the communist threat to humanity
Pope Pius XI
Thursday, August 27, 2020
The authors of education
Decree on Christian Education, Gravissimum Educationis
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
God’s Presence and His Wisdom
Sir Thomas Browne
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
War broke out in Heaven
St. John, The Apocalypse 12
Monday, August 24, 2020
For the Time Being
W. H. Auden
Friday, August 21, 2020
Much Madness is divinest Sense
Emily Dickinson
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The importance of the number three
Jeff Palmer
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, August 17, 2020
No abstract religion
St. John Henry Newman
Thursday, August 13, 2020
This is the world
Dylan Thomas
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Whether the natural law is the same in all men?
St. Thomas Aquinas
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Recessional
Rudyard Kipling
Monday, August 10, 2020
Against partial and provisional truths
St. John Paul II
Friday, August 7, 2020
On “rational” religion
St. John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons, II. 2.
Thursday, August 6, 2020
On Bernanos’ “Diary”
Robert Coles
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Sin
George Herbert
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
At the first turning
T.S. Eliot
Monday, August 3, 2020
