2016 Archives - The Catholic Thing


A note from Father Weinandy

Father Thomas Weinandy

Wednesday, November 1, 2017


For the explainers

Wendell Berry

Thursday, February 9, 2017


Sorrow at another’s good

Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Friday, December 23, 2016


The Burning Babe

Robert Southwell, S.J.

Thursday, December 22, 2016


Way, Truth, Life

W. H. Auden

Wednesday, December 21, 2016


Aquinas on the final end of human person

Jacques Maritain

Tuesday, December 20, 2016


The Truce of Christmas

G.K. Chsterton

Monday, December 19, 2016


Courage and reason

Pope Benedict XVI

Friday, December 16, 2016


What we owe to the war dead

Pius XII

Thursday, December 15, 2016


Contemplation and the world

St. John Paul II 

Tuesday, December 13, 2016


“Cheat the Prophet”

G. K. Chesterton

Tuesday, December 13, 2016


A proper ecumenism

John Zmirak

Monday, December 12, 2016


Witnesses of divine and Catholic truth

St. John Paul II

Friday, December 9, 2016


Saint Bernard’s Hymn to the Virgin

Dante (Paradiso xxxiii)

Thursday, December 8, 2016


The great march of mental destruction

G. K. Chesterton

Wednesday, December 7, 2016


Arming for battle

St. Augustine

Tuesday, December 6, 2016


The Divine Image

William Blake

Monday, December 5, 2016


The stakes grow higher for Pope Francis

Ross Douthat

Friday, December 2, 2016


Truth in charity

Benedict XVI

Thursday, December 1, 2016


Christ walked with me in my cell

Armando Valladares

Wednesday, November 30, 2016


What’s the point of education?

Roger Scruton

Tuesday, November 29, 2016


On grave moral decline

St. John Paul II

Monday, November 28, 2016


Pause to give thanks

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo and Archbishop José H. Gomez, USCCB

Thursday, November 24, 2016


The great minimum

G. K. Chesterton

Wednesday, November 23, 2016


Batter my heart, three-person’d God

John Donne

Tuesday, November 22, 2016


On mercy

Catechism of Pope St. Pius X

Monday, November 21, 2016


On the Latin Mass

Joseph Ratzinger

Friday, November 18, 2016


Please Support TCT

Thursday, November 17, 2016


Lord Is Not a Word

Wednesday, November 16, 2016


On teaching sexuality

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Tuesday, November 15, 2016


Medal of Honor citation: PFC Desmond Doss

The President on behalf of the 79th Congress

Monday, November 14, 2016


The cuckoo clock

The Third Man (script)

Friday, November 11, 2016


The way of pain

Wendell Berry

Thursday, November 10, 2016


Mary, Queen Mother

Pope Pius XII

Wednesday, November 9, 2016


The character of Socrates

Ralph McInerny

Tuesday, November 8, 2016


The spirit likes to dress up

Mary Oliver

Monday, November 7, 2016


Jesus Christ, the true light that enlightens all

St. John Paul II

Friday, November 4, 2016


The great danger in today’s world

Pope Francis (Evangelii gaudium)

Thursday, November 3, 2016


The woman at the altar

Henry James

Wednesday, November 2, 2016


In our time

Nostra aetate

Tuesday, November 1, 2016


The greatness of Dante

Pope Benedict XV

Monday, October 31, 2016


Secular suspicion of Christ

Russell D. Moore

Friday, October 28, 2016


Still Falls the Rain

Dame Edith Sitwell

Thursday, October 27, 2016


An environment of inclusiveness

University of Michigan

Wednesday, October 26, 2016


On liberal hypocrisy

Victor Davis Hanson

Tuesday, October 25, 2016


Peter came to Rome

St. John Paul II

Monday, October 24, 2016


Cain, what have you done?

St. John Paul II

Friday, October 21, 2016


The meaning of persons

William E. May

Thursday, October 20, 2016


The justness of profits

St. John Paul II

Wednesday, October 19, 2016


Gender Identity

Dr. Paul R. McHugh & Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer

Tuesday, October 18, 2016