2023 Archives - The Catholic Thing


Why We Return to Augustine

Saturday, December 9, 2023


The Jesuit Roots of Nicaragua’s War on the Church

Friday, December 8, 2023


In With the New

Thursday, December 7, 2023


The Child We Wait For

Wednesday, December 6, 2023


Of Pilgrimages and Synodality

Tuesday, December 5, 2023


Most Unkindest Cuts: a review of ‘Journey to Bethlehem’

Monday, December 4, 2023


The Wisdom of ‘Persona Humana’

Sunday, December 3, 2023


A Course of Action

Saturday, December 2, 2023


Are Catholics Catholic?

Friday, December 1, 2023


A Francis (George) Generation?

Thursday, November 30, 2023


The Legal Making of Orphans

Wednesday, November 29, 2023


Faith, Certainty, and Doubt

Tuesday, November 28, 2023


‘Holiness Rather Than Peace’

Monday, November 27, 2023


The Public and Present King

Sunday, November 26, 2023


Fairy Tales: Taking Young Minds and Hearts Captive

Saturday, November 25, 2023


Confessions of a Different Kind of Democrat

Friday, November 24, 2023


Thanks within Thanks

Thursday, November 23, 2023


Eucharistic Revival, Thanksgiving, and the Call to Love

Wednesday, November 22, 2023


Light in the Darkness

Tuesday, November 21, 2023


My ‘What to Do about the Synod’ Checklist

Monday, November 20, 2023


Caravaggio in Rome

Sunday, November 19, 2023


Beware Church Use of ‘Transgender’ Language

Saturday, November 18, 2023


Against Modernism

Friday, November 17, 2023


Three Items from the Bishops Meeting in Baltimore

Thursday, November 16, 2023


Updating Hypocrisy

Wednesday, November 15, 2023


‘Transsexual Baptism’: Two Perspectives

/ Fr. Brian A. Graebe

Tuesday, November 14, 2023


The Remedy for Our Confusions

Monday, November 13, 2023


Word of God, Words of Men

Sunday, November 12, 2023


The Two Ways: Hearth or Hygiene?

Saturday, November 11, 2023


Marx and Lenin Explain It All for You

Friday, November 10, 2023


What Today’s Abortion Dispute is Not About

Thursday, November 9, 2023


There Is No AI Shortcut to Real Education

Wednesday, November 8, 2023


Three Theologians on the Pope’s ‘Paradigm’ Shift in Theology

/ Eduardo J. Echeverria / Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.

Tuesday, November 7, 2023


November’s Eternal Motivations

Monday, November 6, 2023


The Eucharist and AI

Sunday, November 5, 2023


The Long History of Arab/Israeli Conflict

Saturday, November 4, 2023


God & the Jews

Friday, November 3, 2023


The Rupnik Case: How is this still happening?

Thursday, November 2, 2023


The Litany of “I Still Can Believe. . .”

Wednesday, November 1, 2023


Mindfulness Is Not Prayer

Tuesday, October 31, 2023


The Greatest Catholic Event Since Vatican II?

Monday, October 30, 2023


Receiving the Fullness of Pentecost

Sunday, October 29, 2023


Keeping Theological Questions from Turning Political

Saturday, October 28, 2023


Our Rapidly Disappearing Absolute Moral Rules

Friday, October 27, 2023


The Religion of Global Climate Change

Thursday, October 26, 2023


Islam and Christian Realism

Wednesday, October 25, 2023


On the ‘Necessary Murder’

Tuesday, October 24, 2023


There’s Got to Be a Better Way

Monday, October 23, 2023


Being God’s

Sunday, October 22, 2023


Ratzinger, Vatican II, and the Idea of Synodality

Saturday, October 21, 2023