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Commentary Archives - The Catholic Thing
Taylor and Travis: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
Friday, August 29, 2025
For once, a U.N. report gets it right: surrogacy is violence
Friday, August 29, 2025
The therapeutic subversion of parental rights
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Let’s add Old Testament saints to the liturgical calendar
Thursday, August 28, 2025
The decline of the Jesuit order – in numerous quotations
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Pope Leo to altar servers: Jesus’ Sacrifice on the Cross is the “Most marvelous reality of our Catholic Faith”
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Why Catholic conversions speak, and Anglican ones fall silent
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
The Chinese Church is now a Church by and of the Chinese
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Will Trump go to heaven?
Monday, August 25, 2025
Whither the Church in the U.S.?
Monday, August 25, 2025
Immigration policy is hurting rural Catholic ministry
Friday, August 22, 2025
Elon Musk’s favorite book is a Catholic classic
Friday, August 22, 2025
A rare victory for fraternal correction
Thursday, August 21, 2025
The Age of Martyrdom
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Can transsexuals be baptized?
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
The invisible vocations crisis
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Is D.C.’s homeless cleanup un-Christian?
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
On monasteries and birth rates
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
The dissident Beijing can’t break
Monday, August 18, 2025
Is a Christian king prepared to rule post-Christian Britain?
Monday, August 18, 2025
There’s a happiness gap between liberal and conservative women
Friday, August 15, 2025
Priests are men, not machines, and need our help
Friday, August 15, 2025
Mariologist sees ‘providential’ signs in Pope Leo XIV’s Marian devotion
Thursday, August 14, 2025
‘Ferragosto,’ when Rome shuts down, is a busy month for the pope
Thursday, August 14, 2025
The waxing and waning of Christian Zionism
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Bucking the trend, large Catholic families celebrate the fruits of fertility
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Religious freedom is at a crossroads in U.S. foreign policy
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Bread: Anthony Esolen’s Word of the Week
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
The future of Providence
Monday, August 11, 2025
Newman on capital punishment
Monday, August 11, 2025
Why German Catholics dislike America’s Bishop Barron
Friday, August 8, 2025
Why Martin Luther gutted the Bible
Friday, August 8, 2025
Why did God favor France?
Thursday, August 7, 2025
What to do with unwanted embryos?
Thursday, August 7, 2025
A force for good: MBA degrees from Catholic schools
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
How Gen Z’s relationship with religion is changing
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Red-pilled Catholics
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
The Death of Mainline Protestantism
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Newman’s Elevation as Doctor of the Church: a gift for our times
Monday, August 4, 2025
On the relevance and reality of the development of doctrine today
Monday, August 4, 2025
Auditor Milone seeks justice from Leo XIV
Friday, August 1, 2025
From Conclave to catwalk
Friday, August 1, 2025
Ecclesial Transparency, Liturgical Peace, and Synodality
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Pope Leo: The quiet American
Thursday, July 31, 2025
NYC’s Mamdani and a new phase of wokeness
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Did Vatican II cause the decline in Mass attendance? Apparently so.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Where your treasure is: No, Early Christians were not communists
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
On Pilgrimage with 20,000 Young Catholics
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Jesus Is the Key to All Scripture
Monday, July 28, 2025
Cardinal Sarah: “Do not profane France with barbaric and inhuman laws”
Monday, July 28, 2025
