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2021 Archives - The Catholic Thing
From the First Three Minutes to Us
Monday, August 2, 2021
Costly Transfiguration
Sunday, August 1, 2021
Higher Education in a Different Key
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Popes Come and Go
Friday, July 30, 2021
What’s Done in Darkness Will Come to Light
Thursday, July 29, 2021
Those Disastrous Trade-Offs
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Freedom, on a Mountain
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, and the Great Tradition
Monday, July 26, 2021
Loaves, Fish, and Shepherds
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Eat the Disabled? Follow the Science
Saturday, July 24, 2021
The Vague Grounds of “Systemic” Racism
Friday, July 23, 2021
Heresies of Presumption
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Backstories: “The Chosen”
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Is This What the Church Needs Just Now?
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Cardinal Mueller on the New TLM Restrictions
Monday, July 19, 2021
Our Lady Goes to War
Sunday, July 18, 2021
For Such a Time as This
Saturday, July 17, 2021
The Irrelevance of Josephus
Friday, July 16, 2021
Synodality Is What You Make of It
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Mission, Character, and Institutions
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
A Telling Moment, Foregone
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
The Strange Conversion of Wallace Stevens
Monday, July 12, 2021
All Systems Go, Part Two
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Race, Covenant, and Forgiveness
Saturday, July 10, 2021
On Not Being Thrown to the Lions
Friday, July 9, 2021
Dulce et Decorum Est
Thursday, July 8, 2021
A Modest Proposal for the Bishops’ Fall Meeting
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Sueñitos
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Liberty, License, Gratitude
Monday, July 5, 2021
From My Mother’s Womb, You Are My Strength
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Pastoral Incoherence
Saturday, July 3, 2021
Princess Di and the Madness of Crowds
Friday, July 2, 2021
Our Indefensible, Unsustainable Status Quo
Thursday, July 1, 2021
The Court to the Rescue Again? Not Quite
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
The Glory of Sts. Peter and Paul
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
A Little Clarity on Some Big Questions
Monday, June 28, 2021
Cultural or Intentional?
Sunday, June 27, 2021
The Breviary: Pray Constantly
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Anti-Racism: Original Sin Repackaged
Friday, June 25, 2021
Contraception and Our Abdication of Fatherhood
Thursday, June 24, 2021
A National Crime
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
That Ceiling in Rome
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Our American Catholic Rubicon
Monday, June 21, 2021
The Church’s Real, and Perceived, Authority
Sunday, June 20, 2021
To Lower Our Nets
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Thoughts on the Great Escape
Friday, June 18, 2021
Language Barriers
Thursday, June 17, 2021
The Antidote to Social Despair
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
The Court: Looking for the Low Door under the Wall
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Dear Bishops: Clear Your Minds of Cant – and Can’t
Monday, June 14, 2021
