Magisterium Archives - The Catholic Thing


The ‘New Paradigm’ Can’t Deliver

Wednesday, December 14, 2022


A Self-Destructive Synod

Monday, October 31, 2022


Elizabeth: “God Has Sworn”

Saturday, December 11, 2021


Bonagura’s Catechism

Monday, February 1, 2021


Biden as an “Authoritative Type”

Tuesday, January 26, 2021


Our Catholic President

Thursday, January 21, 2021


Pope Francis Oversteps the Papal Office

Saturday, October 24, 2020


A Trojan Horse in the Pontifical Biblical Commission

Thursday, December 26, 2019


Pope Francis and Schism

Tuesday, October 8, 2019


Thinking the Unthinkable

Saturday, September 29, 2018


Moms at Mass, and Other Heroes

Tuesday, September 18, 2018


The Irish Referendum

Friday, June 1, 2018


A Re-reading (‘Relectio’) of “Humanae Vitae” – Part 1

Saturday, April 28, 2018


Of Truth and Idols

Saturday, April 21, 2018


A Curious Absence in “Gaudete et Exsultate”

Sunday, April 15, 2018


The Glorious Mission of Theology

Thursday, February 1, 2018


Cardinal Burke on the Rule of Faith

Saturday, November 18, 2017


Killing, Adultery, and the Church’s Witness to Christ

Wednesday, November 15, 2017


Pope Francis, Fr. Martin, and Faith without Reason

Monday, September 25, 2017


Disagreeing With the Church

Sunday, September 17, 2017


The Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons

Saturday, August 12, 2017


When Waves Break Over the Barque of Peter

Saturday, July 15, 2017


Amoris Laetitia: Year One

Tuesday, June 27, 2017


Examination of Conscience

Wednesday, June 7, 2017


Catholic Education Matters

Wednesday, March 29, 2017


Dogma and the Age of Anxiety

Sunday, March 12, 2017


The Multiplication Table

Thursday, March 2, 2017


Religion: Thick and Thin

Friday, February 24, 2017


A Brief Primer on Catholic Faith and Conscience

Wednesday, February 22, 2017


When Cardinals Clash

Thursday, February 16, 2017


What’s Happening – and Where We’re Headed

Friday, February 10, 2017


O Blessed Box!

Saturday, January 21, 2017


Catholic and Correct: Zmirak’s “PIG Catholicism”

Monday, December 12, 2016


Let’s Not Make a Fuss

Wednesday, September 21, 2016


Two Priests Reflect on the State of the Church

/ Fr. Mark A. Pilon

Saturday, July 16, 2016


The Sense of the Faith

Wednesday, May 11, 2016


Mau-mauing the Georgetown Flak-Catchers?

Monday, April 25, 2016


Reflections on “Amoris Laetitia”

Saturday, April 23, 2016


Beautiful, Moving, and Divisive

Friday, April 8, 2016


You Don’t Have to Like a Pope

Thursday, January 28, 2016


Discipline versus Doctrine

Monday, November 30, 2015


Pornography: Our Greatest Ongoing Spiritual Threat

Saturday, November 21, 2015


Preparing Millennials for Marriage

Saturday, October 31, 2015


Does Jesus Nod?

Wednesday, October 28, 2015


Circles within Circles

Thursday, October 22, 2015


Appreciating the Office of Readings

Sunday, July 19, 2015


The Traditional Case for Capital Punishment

Monday, March 16, 2015


Petitioning the Pope

Thursday, February 19, 2015


New York’s “Roman” Archbishop

Monday, February 9, 2015


‘Pharmakeia,’ Contraception, and the Interior Life

Saturday, February 7, 2015