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2025 Archives - The Catholic Thing
The Smell of a Skunk and the Odor of Sanctity
Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Newman and the Joy of the Dance
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Parallel Lives: With Faith and Without
Friday, August 29, 2025
How St. Augustine Converted to Christianity
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Politics and the Birthday Party
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Back to Schooling
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
On Not Giving Extremely Little
Monday, August 25, 2025
Answering the Right Question
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Wisdom about Human Flourishing
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Pope Leo and the Augustinian legacy
Friday, August 22, 2025
What Makes the Man?
Thursday, August 21, 2025
The Mellifluous Doctor and Us
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
The God of the Philosophers and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Pope Leo XIV Inspires a Rebirth of Gregorian Chant
Monday, August 18, 2025
Merriment from Another World
Sunday, August 17, 2025
A Cautionary Tale: the ‘French Malaise’
Saturday, August 16, 2025
The Hidden Rose
Friday, August 15, 2025
Kolbe as Witness
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Follow the Science, Ignore the Cliff
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
The Vatican’s Hall of Constantine Restored
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Dr. Royal’s: “How I Haven’t Stopped Worrying and Still Don’t Love the Bomb”
Monday, August 11, 2025
What Happens If You Separate God and Man?
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Two on Edith Stein
Richard A. Spinello / Elizabeth A. Mitchell
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Aesthetic Education
Friday, August 8, 2025
Coming Down the Mountain
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Notes on a ‘Great Reset’
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
The Joy(?) of Working for the Catholic Church
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Paul of Tarsus: Cultural Amphibian
Monday, August 4, 2025
The Wealth of Wisdom
Sunday, August 3, 2025
John Henry Newman: Newest Doctor of the Church
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Some Ethics of Some AI
Friday, August 1, 2025
A New Age of the Church?
Thursday, July 31, 2025
On Echeverria’s ‘Redeeming Sex’
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Jesus Is God!
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
James Hitchcock and the Continuing Battles over Vatican II
Monday, July 28, 2025
The Heart of Prayer
Sunday, July 27, 2025
July 20th in the Round
Saturday, July 26, 2025
What Changes and What Doesn’t
Friday, July 25, 2025
The Truth in Full
Thursday, July 24, 2025
The Radical Truth: Christ Reveals Man to Himself
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Traditional Liturgy
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Wisdom in Bedlam
Monday, July 21, 2025
Divine Visitation
Sunday, July 20, 2025
An Unfamiliar Faith
Saturday, July 19, 2025
The Jargon-Filled Synodal Trajectory
Friday, July 18, 2025
The Meaning of Life
Thursday, July 17, 2025
The Heart of the Matter
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Waters Deadly and Domesticated
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
AI and the Catholic Moment
Monday, July 14, 2025
The Decline of Liberal Catholicism
Sunday, July 13, 2025
