Columns Archives - The Catholic Thing


Christ Holds Things Together and Tells Us Who We Are

/ Joseph R. Wood

Wednesday, April 17, 2024


Needed: More Good Science

Tuesday, April 16, 2024


‘Christian Nationalism’ and the ‘Catholic Thing’

Monday, April 15, 2024


The Rise of the Ultramontanists

Sunday, April 14, 2024


Doctrine and the Cure of Souls

Saturday, April 13, 2024


What’s Right about ‘Infinite Dignity’

Friday, April 12, 2024


Is it Jansenism?  Or Christianity?

Thursday, April 11, 2024


The Consistency of the Consistent Ethic of Life

Wednesday, April 10, 2024


A Dignity Still to be Determined

Tuesday, April 9, 2024


For Elon Musk and His Disciples, Mars Is Heaven

Monday, April 8, 2024


This Temple, Rebuilt

Sunday, April 7, 2024


The Eclipse and the Annunciation

Saturday, April 6, 2024


The Rising

Friday, April 5, 2024


Creation and the Order of Love

Thursday, April 4, 2024


‘The Taking of Christ’ by Caravaggio

Wednesday, April 3, 2024


Truly, This Man Was the Son Of God

Tuesday, April 2, 2024


The Time of the Gentiles

Monday, April 1, 2024


Life Is Liberated!

Sunday, March 31, 2024


The ‘Stillness’ of Holy Saturday

Saturday, March 30, 2024


St. Joseph, St. Francis, and the Cross

/ Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

Friday, March 29, 2024


‘But the Beholder Wanting’

Thursday, March 28, 2024


Notes on the Man from Kerioth

Wednesday, March 27, 2024


Pope Francis and the Demise of Ascetic Christianity

Tuesday, March 26, 2024


No One Envies Those Who Suffer 

Monday, March 25, 2024


Prophetess and Penitent

Sunday, March 24, 2024


How Bad Are We?

Saturday, March 23, 2024


How to Feel Pain

Friday, March 22, 2024


Gratitude in the Midst of Grief

Thursday, March 21, 2024


Synodal News and a Papal Saga

Wednesday, March 20, 2024


Of Doing Business and Philanthropy

Tuesday, March 19, 2024


Where Is the Laughter?

Monday, March 18, 2024


Hidden Halos

Sunday, March 17, 2024


Pope Francis at Eleven

Saturday, March 16, 2024


‘God’s Truth Will Win – Ukraine Will Win’

Friday, March 15, 2024


Thinking About Holy Thursday

Thursday, March 14, 2024


The ‘Our’ in Our Democracy

Wednesday, March 13, 2024


The Single Vocation?

Tuesday, March 12, 2024


History, Sacred and Not

Monday, March 11, 2024


Why Do We “Practice” the Faith?

Sunday, March 10, 2024


The Figure in Shadow

Saturday, March 9, 2024


Near-Death Experiences

Friday, March 8, 2024


How to Build a Healthy Culture

Thursday, March 7, 2024


The Mundane, Not Just Miracles, Converts the World

Wednesday, March 6, 2024


The Eucharist and Catholic Education

Tuesday, March 5, 2024


Lunatic, Liar, Lord. . .or Carpenter?

Monday, March 4, 2024


A Cure for Therapeutic ‘Cures’

Sunday, March 3, 2024


Cardinal McElroy Denounces the ‘Haters’

Saturday, March 2, 2024


Is Catholic Feminism Working?

Friday, March 1, 2024


With Him in the Desert

Thursday, February 29, 2024


Toward a Confessing Church

Wednesday, February 28, 2024