Commentary Archives - The Catholic Thing
Bishops, borders, and the (bully) pulpit
Friday, May 3, 2024
What the pro-Palestinian campus protests are really about
Friday, May 3, 2024
Against cosmic melancholia
Thursday, May 2, 2024
The dark side to Donald Trump’s support of IVF
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Who’s up and who’s down: the race to be the next pope
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Our pagan society
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Gaza vs. Ukraine: Selective Outrage at America’s Colleges
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
A rallying cry to the Church by one of 20th century’s great intellectual converts
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Pope suggests Catholics go “parish-shopping”
Monday, April 29, 2024
Radicalized students will regret backing Hamas
Monday, April 29, 2024
How cloistered, silent Carthusians made a big noise with a Chartreuse shortage
Friday, April 26, 2024
‘Fr. Justin,’ AI priest, ‘defrocked’
Friday, April 26, 2024
Columbia chaplain: ‘Antisemitism must be stopped’
Thursday, April 25, 2024
American bishops shout “Fire!” after helping to set the blaze
Thursday, April 25, 2024
‘The Habsburg Way’: Lessons for Today, From Openness to Life to How to Die Well
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Auschwitz survivor: antisemitism is a ‘cancer’ spreading across America
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The Carthusians of Vermont
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The Vatican’s 36-hour week
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
National Public Radio chief says reporters “are not focused on the truth”
Monday, April 22, 2024
Katherine Pakaluk and the women defying the ‘birth dearth’
Monday, April 22, 2024
On excommunication
Friday, April 19, 2024
What is humanity’s infinite dignity?
Friday, April 19, 2024
Trust the science, not the scientists
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Resisting LGBTQ madness in Catholic colleges
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Spinning Balthasar
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Mother Cabrini was booked on Titanic
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Time to remove Rupnik’s art
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Nine facts about U.S. Catholics
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
The Populist Revolt: Europe’s Had Enough!
Monday, April 15, 2024
Divine dignity alone is strictly infinite
Monday, April 15, 2024
A voice unheard: The absence of deacons at the Synod
Friday, April 12, 2024
The rational credibility of Christianity
Friday, April 12, 2024
Why ‘Infinite Dignity’ falls short
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Ideology and blasphemy in Russia
Thursday, April 11, 2024
An amazingly successful Christocentric parish
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Christians should welcome stricter border controls
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
The problem with saying ‘sex assigned at birth’
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Dorothy Day inspires Pennsylvania’s Catholic Worker Farm
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Today’s total eclipse – and the Catholic faith
Monday, April 8, 2024
Caitlin Clark: How the Catholic basketball star captivated America
Monday, April 8, 2024
The faith of the next generation
Friday, April 5, 2024
Election ’24: Trumpite Evangelicalism or Bidenist Catholicism?
Friday, April 5, 2024
The rise of “normophobia”
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Synodality: Where is Catholic mystery?
Thursday, April 4, 2024
What the Bible says about the pope
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
John Finlay’s Prayer to the Father
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
The remarkable legacies of ordinary Catholic women
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
The Shroud: Evidence of Jesus’ Resurrection
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Concrete
Friday, March 29, 2024
Easter, creation, and holiness
Friday, March 29, 2024