Commentary Archives - The Catholic Thing
50 years of priesthood: Cardinal Burke reflects
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
In praise of judgment
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
God and woman at Cornell
Monday, June 30, 2025
The Rosary miracle at Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Monday, June 30, 2025
Support for Christian prayer in U.S. public schools varies widely by state
Friday, June 27, 2025
How to Read the Bible with the Historic Church
Friday, June 27, 2025
Searching for a just-war explanation for U.S. attacks on Iran
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Is peace possible in the ‘liturgy wars’?
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Spiritual starvation in the age of AI
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Our first ‘boomer’ pope
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
The U.S. should stay out of Israel’s war with Iran
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Why Pope Leo sees inspiration in sports
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Might Pope Leo make Fr. Michael McGivney the patron saint of baseball?
Monday, June 23, 2025
We like Leo!
Monday, June 23, 2025
Four popes and the prospects for recovering right reason and the moral foundations of democracy
Friday, June 20, 2025
Saint Joan of Arc, Islam, and the Christian rebirth
Friday, June 20, 2025
Cardinal Burke: Doctrinal and moral corruption ‘directly related’ to liturgical abuse
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Are there demons at work in Artificial Intelligence?
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Leo XIV’s crusade against Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Nearly half of U.S. adults have a connection to Catholicism
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
A Time of Revival
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
The Trinity: Three Persons in One Nature
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Paul McCartney’s Catholic pulse
Monday, June 16, 2025
Some unattractive aspects of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Monday, June 16, 2025
England chooses homosexual ‘pride’ over the Sacred Heart
Friday, June 13, 2025
Rocamadour: A Christian Israel
Friday, June 13, 2025
Stopping genocide of Christians in the Middle East
Thursday, June 12, 2025
A dark day: New York’s government endorses suicide
Thursday, June 12, 2025
How ‘Obergfell’ failed
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
What’s next for Marko Rupnik?
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Tradition and right use: a note on Leo XIV’s “style”
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The rainbow flag and the Sacred Heart: a battle for the soul of June
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The Rule of St Augustine: wisdom for our Augustinian moment
Monday, June 9, 2025
Remembering D-Day
Monday, June 9, 2025
How Catholicism got cool!
Friday, June 6, 2025
Bishop Martin is out of touch
Friday, June 6, 2025
Understanding devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Pope Leo’s early challenge: What to do about Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Small is beautiful: recovering Catholicism’s subsidiarity principle
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
How AI challenges the laws of war
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
The unconstitutional ban on charter schools
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
The deep structural reform awaiting Leo XIV beneath the Becciu soap opera
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Mr. & Mrs. Shakespeare: domestic bliss?
Monday, June 2, 2025
How Christ’s ascension takes the training wheels off our faith
Monday, June 2, 2025
Pope Leo shows his baseball skills
Friday, May 30, 2025
1,700 years later, Nicaea remains a milestone of faith in Christ
Friday, May 30, 2025
Catholic decline and Christian revival in Ireland
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Duncan Stroik: Church architect who fights modernism
Thursday, May 29, 2025
The pope offers a touch of aristocracy
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Waiting for Pentecost with Mary
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
