Robert Royal Archives - The Catholic Thing


Synodal News and a Papal Saga

Wednesday, March 20, 2024


‘God’s Truth Will Win – Ukraine Will Win’

Friday, March 15, 2024


The ‘Our’ in Our Democracy

Wednesday, March 13, 2024


PODCAST: Should Fiducia Supplicans be Retracted?

Monday, March 11, 2024


History, Sacred and Not

Monday, March 11, 2024


Cardinal McElroy Denounces the ‘Haters’

Saturday, March 2, 2024


PODCAST: Cardinal Burke’s Novena for the Church and America

Tuesday, February 27, 2024


PODCAST: Jerome’s Tears, ancient wisdom for Lent (with David Bonagura)

Monday, February 26, 2024


Dead Synodality

Saturday, February 24, 2024


Dead Man Walking in Lent

Wednesday, February 21, 2024


Memo to Tucho

Monday, February 12, 2024


Africa’s Rational ‘Prejudice’

Wednesday, February 7, 2024


Why Theology?

Tuesday, February 6, 2024


St. Blase and Blessings

Saturday, February 3, 2024


PODCAST: Rediscovering Catholic Education (with Patrick Reilly)

Friday, February 2, 2024


Confessions of a Book Hoarder

Wednesday, January 31, 2024


Untimely Reflections on ‘Hate’

Monday, January 22, 2024


PODCAST: Cardinal Fernandez’s Sexual Fixations (with Michael Pakaluk)

Friday, January 19, 2024


Multiple Texts Showing Cardinal Fernández’s ‘idée fixe’

Thursday, January 18, 2024


Reality Is Greater Than Their Ideas

Monday, January 15, 2024


The New Year: A User’s Guide

Wednesday, January 3, 2024


Two Commentaries on the Blessing of ‘Irregular Couples’

/ Fr. Gerald E. Murray

Saturday, December 30, 2023


‘The World’s Desire’

Monday, December 25, 2023


Will the Church Teach It?

Saturday, December 23, 2023


Why We Return to Augustine

Saturday, December 9, 2023


The Jesuit Roots of Nicaragua’s War on the Church

Friday, December 8, 2023


The Child We Wait For

Wednesday, December 6, 2023


A Francis (George) Generation?

Thursday, November 30, 2023


The Legal Making of Orphans

Wednesday, November 29, 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


Beware Church Use of ‘Transgender’ Language

Saturday, November 18, 2023


Three Items from the Bishops Meeting in Baltimore

Thursday, November 16, 2023


‘Transsexual Baptism’: Two Perspectives

/ Fr. Brian A. Graebe

Tuesday, November 14, 2023


The Remedy for Our Confusions

Monday, November 13, 2023


There’s Got to Be a Better Way

Monday, October 23, 2023


Pope Francis and Care for Creation

Thursday, October 19, 2023


Homophobia & Homo Sapiens

Monday, October 16, 2023


The Work of Remembering

Wednesday, October 11, 2023


Holiness and Prudence

Saturday, October 7, 2023


A Synod of Shattered Expectations

Thursday, October 5, 2023


Confusion Worse Confounded

Wednesday, October 4, 2023


Rejecting the World to Improve the World

Saturday, September 30, 2023


The World Beyond Our Window

Wednesday, September 27, 2023


Beauty Will Save the World

Tuesday, September 26, 2023


Get Ready for Some Explosions

Wednesday, September 20, 2023


Cleveland Bishop Malesic Speaks the Truth

Monday, September 18, 2023


‘Yes’  

Wednesday, September 13, 2023


Psychopaths in Power

Tuesday, September 12, 2023