2023 Archives - The Catholic Thing


Where are the Good Guys?

Sunday, December 31, 2023


Two Commentaries on the Blessing of ‘Irregular Couples’

/ Fr. Gerald E. Murray

Saturday, December 30, 2023


Saint Thomas Becket

Friday, December 29, 2023


The Holy Innocents

Thursday, December 28, 2023


Busyness and Christian Living

Wednesday, December 27, 2023


Why Can’t Every Day Be Like Christmas?

Tuesday, December 26, 2023


‘The World’s Desire’

Monday, December 25, 2023


Mary’s Question

Sunday, December 24, 2023


Will the Church Teach It?

Saturday, December 23, 2023


Even Atheists Still Set Up Christmas Trees

Friday, December 22, 2023


On the Public Meaning of Priestly Blessings

Thursday, December 21, 2023


Finding Christ in the Noise

Wednesday, December 20, 2023


God’s Blessings and Magisterial Teaching

Tuesday, December 19, 2023


Are Catholic Colleges Catholic?

Monday, December 18, 2023


Remembering to Forget

Sunday, December 17, 2023


‘Forty Years I Endured That Generation’

Saturday, December 16, 2023


Veritas Liberabit Vos

Friday, December 15, 2023


‘Words Matter’

Thursday, December 14, 2023


‘The Only Truth on Earth’

Wednesday, December 13, 2023


He is Coming

Tuesday, December 12, 2023


Validating the Catholic Thing

Monday, December 11, 2023


Advent, More than Ever

Sunday, December 10, 2023


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