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2018 Archives - Page 3 of 14 - The Catholic Thing
All that is gold does not glitter
J. R. R. Tolkien
Friday, July 31, 2020
Cancelling Margaret Sanger is only a start
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Thursday, July 30, 2020
“Progressive” ideas at variance with Truth
Pope Leo XIII
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Carrie Gress, “Theology of the Home”
Monday, July 27, 2020
The Evil Empire Speech (excerpt) President Ronald Reagan
President Ronald Reagan
Friday, July 24, 2020
Requiem for the Croppies
Seamus Heaney
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Racism is a sin
St. John Paul II
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
L’infinito
Giacomo Leopardi
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Blessèd sister, holy mother
T.S. Eliot
Monday, July 20, 2020
Spiritual light and intellectual perplexity
St. John Henry Newman
Friday, July 17, 2020
Over This, Your White Grave
Karol Wojtyla
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Contra contraception
Pope St. Paul VI
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Living
Denise Levertov
Friday, July 10, 2020
Chesterton’s cops
Kevin D. Williamson
Thursday, July 9, 2020
The face in the Shroud
St. John Paul II
Thursday, July 9, 2020
The Stolen Child
W. B. Yeats
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
The artist: creator and craftsman
St. John Paul II
Monday, July 6, 2020
God bless America
St. John Paul II
Friday, July 3, 2020
The citizen: public and private
Theodore Roosevelt
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Be faithful, Go
Zbigniew Herbert
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Christ plays in 10,000 places
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, June 29, 2020
Waiting for the Barbarians
Constantine P. Cavafy
Friday, June 26, 2020
Here faith and politics meet
Benedict XVI
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Gracious Lady
Henry Adams
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Sex and gender cannot be separable
Congregation for Catholic Education
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Canal bank walk
Patrick Kavanagh
Monday, June 22, 2020
Sonnet 30
William Shakespeare
Friday, June 19, 2020
Prayer and art
Benedict XVI
Thursday, June 18, 2020
On being “woke”
P.J. O’Rourke
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
A holy sonnet
John Donne
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The Divine Image
William Blake
Monday, June 15, 2020
Dignity and equality of all St. John Paul II
St. John Paul II
Friday, June 12, 2020
To Praise the Mutilated World
Adam Zagajewski
Thursday, June 11, 2020
On human trafficking
Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (2007)
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Charity in truth
Benedict XVI
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Caravaggio: a Catholic genius with all his faults
Elizabeth Lev
Monday, June 8, 2020
Participating in the mystery of Christ through song
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted
Thursday, June 4, 2020
All has been occupied by noise
C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Is transgenderism biological?
Anne Hendershott
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
A Walk
Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Robert Bly)
Monday, June 1, 2020
I am not ashamed of the Gospel
St. Paul (Romans 1)
Friday, May 29, 2020
Newman on Christian educationFr. Ian Ker
Fr. Ian Ker
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Agnosticism and sex abuse
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
In a Dark Time
Theodore Roethke
Monday, May 25, 2020
Socialism is against natural justice
Pope Leo XIII
Friday, May 22, 2020
The gift of a child
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Adam Zagajewski
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Christ in the Eucharist
St. Pope John Paul II
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
From heavenly harmony
John Dryden
Monday, May 18, 2020
Contraband
Denise Levertov
Friday, May 15, 2020
