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The Extraordinary in Ordinary Time
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (240+ words) a husband, father, and doctoral student at the Catholic University of America. Mr. Cassella is also Editorial and Online Assistant at The Catholic Thing. Crisis in Venezuela: Rep. Carlos Giménez...
Confessions of a Catholic Writer
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (407+ words) today?” Good counsel for everyone, especially the Catholic writer. James V. Schall, S.J. On Facts and Truths...Truth? Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason...Crisis of the West, and A Deeper Vision:…...
The Next Journey
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (1008+ words) | francese | tedesco | Italiano | slovacco | spagnolo | portoghese Giuseppe R. Wood on sabato, Febbraio 7, 2026 As I convert, I’ve heard some wonderful stories of other people’s conversions. Many warrant publication because of the unexpected ways that God’s grace often reaches us. And interest in…...
The Holy Innocents - The Catholic Thing
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (247+ words) and theology. He is the founding editor of The Catholic Response and publisher of Newman House Press....Most recently, he launched a graduate program in Catholic school administration through Pontifex University....
Incarnation Wonder - The Catholic Thing
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (351+ words) Christians believe that the evidence for this all-pervading creative love is found in the Incarnation. A God bigger than we can even imagine chooses to become incarnate in an embryo smaller than we can see with the naked eye. It…...
Sacerdotal Storytellers
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (933+ words) then hit Netflix in December. It got considerable Catholic attention as the murder takes place in an upstate...after a fashion, when Father Jud asks him if he is Catholic. “No, very much not, no,” Blanc says. “Proud heretic....
The Closest Thing to Contemplation
7+ mon, 3+ day ago (588+ words) Robert Royal on Monday, February 9, 2026 T.S. Eliot got it just right in “Little Gidding”: what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language…...
Our strange Catholic moment
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (59+ words) The Catholic Thing - A Link in a Chain Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas...Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles Our strange Catholic moment Matthew Schmitz, First Things on Thursday, May 14, 2026 The Catholic Thing Daily Email...
The Blessed Virgin Mary Compared to a Window
9+ mon, 2+ day ago (353+ words) Wednesday, December 10, 2025 Because my love is simple as a window And knows no shame of original dust, I longed all night, (when I was visible) for dawn my death: When I would marry day, my Holy Spirit: And die by…...
The New Iconoclasm: What We’ve Forgotten
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (563+ words) fifteen years of providing catechesis in many Catholic parishes, I can say that – unfortunately – such...– I noticed immediately when I began attending Catholic liturgies, the absence of gestures directed toward...both in the Roman Catechism (1566) and in the newer Catechism…...