Amoris Laetitia Archives - The Catholic Thing


Pope Francis and the Demise of Ascetic Christianity

Tuesday, March 26, 2024


‘Transsexual Baptism’: Two Perspectives

/ Fr. Brian A. Graebe

Tuesday, November 14, 2023


Late August Stirrings in Rome

Saturday, August 27, 2022


Learning from Romeo and Juliet

Saturday, August 7, 2021


Banish Sin, Transform the Church

Sunday, August 16, 2020


Surrogacy: A problem of human dignity

Thursday, May 21, 2020


Pope Francis and Schism

Tuesday, October 8, 2019


A Serious Struggle Starts Today

Monday, October 22, 2018


Restoring Confidence in the Catholic Faith

Saturday, September 8, 2018


Old Heresies Never Die

Friday, September 7, 2018


Francis Condemns “Eugenic” Abortions and Fake Marriage

Monday, June 18, 2018


The German Church Divided

Monday, May 7, 2018


Of Truth and Idols

Saturday, April 21, 2018


Conscience, Newman, and Vatican II

Wednesday, April 18, 2018


Of Paradigm Shifts

Thursday, April 5, 2018


Three Crises – and Three Opportunities

Monday, February 26, 2018


Cardinal Cupich’s Revolutionary Conscience

Wednesday, February 21, 2018


A Second Look at the Kazakh Bishops’ “Profession”

Saturday, January 27, 2018


The Crisis We Are Living

Saturday, January 6, 2018


Cardinal Burke on the Rule of Faith

Saturday, November 18, 2017


Chronic Confusion Worse Confounded

Monday, November 6, 2017


The Need for Fuller Pastoral Care

Thursday, September 28, 2017


Pope Francis, Fr. Martin, and Faith without Reason

Monday, September 25, 2017


Shooting the Orthodox Catholic Messenger

Wednesday, September 13, 2017


The Newer Phariseeism

Wednesday, August 23, 2017


A New – and Encouraging – Form of Collegiality?

Thursday, July 27, 2017


A Diptych for a Cardinal

Tuesday, July 25, 2017


The Extraordinary Synod of 1985

Monday, July 10, 2017


Is His Grace Truly Sufficient – or Not?

Saturday, April 22, 2017


The False and Dangerous Coccopalmerio Gambit

Saturday, March 18, 2017


A Brief Primer on Catholic Faith and Conscience

Wednesday, February 22, 2017


What’s Happening – and Where We’re Headed

Friday, February 10, 2017


Meltdown in Malta

Wednesday, January 18, 2017


The Dangerous Road of Papal Silence

Saturday, December 3, 2016


Whose Side Are We on?

Friday, December 2, 2016


Consistory Chronicle: Day One

Thursday, November 17, 2016


Some (Not Entirely Random) Thoughts on “Amoris Laetitia”

Saturday, October 29, 2016


A Bizarre Papal Move

Wednesday, September 14, 2016


Two Priests Reflect on the State of the Church

/ Fr. Mark A. Pilon

Saturday, July 16, 2016


The Devil, You Say?

Sunday, June 26, 2016


What Are We Seeing?

Thursday, June 23, 2016


No Power to Redefine Marriage

Thursday, May 19, 2016


Marriage, and Its Exhortations

Tuesday, April 19, 2016


The Danger in “Irony”

Friday, April 15, 2016


Beautiful, Moving, and Divisive

Friday, April 8, 2016