Publication: The Catholic Thing

Search the Catechism, the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, or indeed the entire Vatican website—search as much as you like—and you will find no teaching on what ...

The Catholic Church has always distinguished itself from other Christian bodies by its claim to possess, and be bound by, a deposit of faith handed down from the Apostles. The Church ...

I recently attended the funeral of a young man who died tragically. It happened to be a solemn high Traditional Latin Mass, entirely licit and even affirmed by the presence ...

There are many crises in the Catholic Church today, but one of the most serious is the dismal state of moral theology.  That crisis has its roots in the confusion ...

The Catholic Church is accustomed to attacks upon her teaching. The history of heresy over the centuries reveals the never-ending efforts of those who seek to replace Catholic doctrine with ...

If I were created a Cardinal and dispensed from the canonical requirement to be ordained a deacon or priest – my vocation is as a layperson – this is how ...

The pope may be many things in many contexts, but he should avoid becoming a shill for the Democratic Party. This is how he came across when he delivered a ...

How do you preach the word of God to madmen? How do you preach it in Bedlam? For everyone in Bedlam is going to be afflicted with the twitch. If ...

The contrast in the response from U.S. bishops during the Obama administration and the Trump administration proves this has a lot more to do with politics than concern for migrants ...

On one of the last frames of Wake Up Dead Man (the latest in the Knives Out series), we get a glimpse of the newly edited parish sign announcing, “All ...

The announcement of the appointment of Sarah Mullally as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury marks a historic first for the Church of England (CoE), which traces its origins back more ...

My family and I spend a few months out of the year in Nova Scotia, in a part of the province that was once overwhelmingly Catholic. The congregations are aging, ...

So, Cardinal Cupich has decided to honor pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin. The chancery office says that they are honoring him for things other than his support for abortion, but that’s ...

Christopher Dawson (1889-1970), Catholic convert and eminent historian of culture, despised the tripartite division of both secular and ecclesiastical history into early, medieval, and modern periods. For the Church’s history, ...

When Pope Leo XIV spoke from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on the day of his election he said: “we want to be a synodal Church.” The significance of ...

t the first in-person meeting of the members of the XVI Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod, headed by Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod, ...

Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has made news with his order, if I may be permitted a metaphor, that the Vetus Ordo be celebrated only in a certain broom closet ...

Increasingly, it is felt among the practising faithful that canonisations have little to do with the Church’s response to an organically emerging devotion to a particular deceased holy person, and ...

The unending process that is the Synod on Synodality has taken a new and unexpected turn. The current “Implementation Phase” of the three-year synodal path, following the conclusion of last ...

Pope Francis’ Letter to the Bishops of the United States on what he describes as “the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of ...

One of our neighbors in Canada, where we live for part of the year, is thinking of buying the cottage next door, the homestead of an old man who isn’t ...