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Pope Francis Archives - Page 2 of 11 - The Catholic Thing
The Francis Effect, Ten Years On
Monday, March 13, 2023
The Gospel in Lent
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Is Anyone Listening?
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Tridentine Toleration
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Pope Francis Must Stop the Madness
Saturday, February 18, 2023
The Synodal Way’s Great Expectations
Monday, February 13, 2023
Missing: ‘Vatican Girl’ on Netflix
Monday, February 6, 2023
Life, By the Numbers, Revisited
Friday, January 20, 2023
What Should Be Said at a Funeral?
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Monday, January 16, 2023
In Gratitude: Cardinal George Pell
Saturday, January 14, 2023
The Old and the New
Friday, December 30, 2022
A New Encyclical on Contraception?
Monday, December 19, 2022
A Different Kind of Catholicism?
Monday, December 5, 2022
Signs of Contradiction
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Improving the Church
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
To Stay in the Fight
Monday, November 21, 2022
Our Shared Point of Reference
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Joining Heaven with Earth
Sunday, November 13, 2022
The Jesuits: What Went Wrong
Thursday, November 10, 2022
We’ve Got Issues – and They’re Cosmic
Monday, November 7, 2022
Advantages of Inflation
Friday, November 4, 2022
What’s Said, What’s Communicated
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Gender Ideology Comes to Notre Dame
Monday, October 24, 2022
The Present Desolation
Friday, October 21, 2022
A Piecemeal Vatican III?
Monday, October 17, 2022
Two Masses
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Thoughts on a Healthy Garden
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Two Commentaries on Bishops “Blessing” Same-Sex “Unions”
Stephen P. White and Fr. Gerald E. Murray
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Understanding Bishop Robert Barron
Saturday, September 17, 2022
Liturgical Reform: The Council and the ‘Consilium’
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
No Bark, No Bite
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
The Uses of Presumption?
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
The Feast of Forgiveness
Monday, August 29, 2022
Some Reflections on the New Red Hats
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Late August Stirrings in Rome
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Vatican Failures in Cardinal Ouellet’s Case
Saturday, August 20, 2022
The Lord’s Koan
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
On Not Losing Heart
Monday, August 8, 2022
The Pope Comes to Apologize
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Does Enforcing Canon Law Harm the Flock?
Monday, July 11, 2022
The Mass According to Vatican II
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Let Not the Hysterics Distract You
Monday, June 27, 2022
The Vatican Confesses
Thursday, June 23, 2022
The Pope’s Peculiar Take on the Council – and America
Thursday, June 16, 2022
The American Catholic Church: A Defense
Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.
Friday, June 10, 2022
Papal Possibilities, Anno Domini 2022
Monday, June 6, 2022
A Red Hat for San Diego
Thursday, June 2, 2022
Lionheart
Monday, May 23, 2022
The German Response
Saturday, April 23, 2022
