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The Catholic Thing is a daily column rooted in the richest cultural tradition in the world, i.e., the concrete historical reality of Catholicism.
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Join well-known theologian and author Edward Sri for weekly insights on understanding and living out the Catholic faith. Delve deeper into the Bible, prayer time, virtue, relationships, marriage and family and culture with practical reflections on all things Catholic. Don't just go through the motions. Live as an intentional Catholic, a disciple of Jesus Christ.
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Join us as we strive to do just one small thing for love of our Lord Jesus Christ. Each week Nancy will share about the reality of being a Catholic Parent, and how we are called to strive to raise saints despite the fact that we are a sinner. Often times she will be touching on topics covered on the Catholic Sprouts Podcast that week, in a way that is more geared towards adults.
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By Randall Smith But first a note: Be sure to tune in tomorrow - Thursday, September 19th at 8 PM Eastern - to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse on 'The World Over.' TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Father Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss the Asian journey of Pope Francis, his comments about America'…
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Our Response: How to Surrender Everything (Kerygma Part 5)
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What does it mean to really follow Jesus? Being a serious Catholic involves much more than just following set rules or believing the dogmas of the Church. Dr. Edward Sri explains that being in relationship with Jesus is at the heart of being Catholic. Jesus is inviting each one of us to an intimate relationship with him, to follow him. How do we re…
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By Father Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap. Today, September 17th, the Franciscan orders of sisters, brothers, and priests celebrate the 800th anniversary of St. Francis receiving the stigmata - the five wounds of Christ in his hands, feet, and side. The first account of this event is found in Thomas of Celano's First Life of St. Francis. While he was …
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By Robert Royal A sometimes-tart critic of this site - a self-described atheist who reads this page regularly for reasons unknown - came to the defense of Pope Francis' recent remarks in Singapore about all religions being a path to God (in the original Italian, Tutte le religioni sono un cammino per arrivare a Dio): "Even as an atheist I have to f…
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza Bespoke clothing is better than off-the-rack, but often rather too expensive. Bespoke liturgical seasons are free and permit the flourishing of a greater liturgical piety. And they can be observed or ignored according to taste. What is a bespoke season? We might consider 15th September - feast of Our Lady of Sorrows - …
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By Father Brian A. Graebe In his autobiography, Winston Churchill recounts an episode from his early school days when he had to decline the Latin noun mensa. When a puzzled Churchill asked why the vocative case is translated, "O table," the schoolmaster responded matter-of-factly that that's how one would address a table. After objecting that he do…
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By Michael Pakaluk A commonplace book is a book in which a reader, over his lifetime, and especially in his student years, writes down excerpts from his reading which strike him as so important, and so well expressed, that he wants to treasure them and live by them. It should be a physical book, not a computer file. He should insist on a high stand…
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By Anthony Esolen "And I shall go in unto the altar of God." "To God, who gives joy to my youth." So, for eighty years, the priest and the altar boy at the church of my childhood prepared for Mass in prayer apart from the congregation. Anyone who had once served at the altar, and anyone who had a missal handy, as most people did, would be aware tha…
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By Francis X. Maier My parents grew up in the Depression Era. College was financially out of reach. The focus of their everyday lives was survival. As a result, they made education a priority for their children, and I got plenty of it: seven years of undergrad, graduate, and post-grad studies. But the best education I ever received was in a Jesuit …
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Re-Creation: "I Make All Things New" (Kerygma Part 4)
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The story does not end on Good Friday. Yes, it is the climax of the story, but it is not the end. Jesus rises on Easter Sunday and he also rises in us and makes us a new creation. In this episode, Dr. Edward Sri addresses the fourth “R” in his series on the Kerygma. He explains what it means for each of us to be a “re-created” in the Lord. Snippet …
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By Fr. Benedict Kiely On June 4, 1940, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (currently undergoing character assassination from the poorly educated Right) addressed the House of Commons. He had supposed, just a week before, that he would have to announce the most serious loss of Allied Forces in the war so far, and, perhaps, the imminent Ger…
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By Robert Royal Among the many abrupt twists and turns in our online-driven, unstable social life, one of the oddest is the recent career of "Cultural Christianity" (hereafter "CC"). CC refers to the merely passive - and precarious - residue of Christianity in many people's lives, not a fully living faith. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was often denig…
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By Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas We know relatively little of Our Lady's origins; most of our information comes from the Protoevangelium of St. James, which contains many pious legends and traditions, including information about her parents and infancy. That work informs us that her parents' names were Anne and Joachim. We do know, for a fact, howeve…
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By Brad Miner Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller imitate Ronald and Nancy Reagan in a new movie about the life of America's 40th president. As director Sean McNamara and screenwriter Howard Klausner would have us believe, that life was mostly about anti-Communism. No one will doubt that Mr. Reagan was opposed to Communism, but one might have hope…
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By David Warren "Well done, good and faithful servant," as we said to ourselves in thinking (here) of Saint Bruno today, that courageous enemy of decadence and filth, and of the Carthusian Order he founded. "Euge!" I've been trying to catch up with our social degeneration with the help of Jonathan Haidt, the only social psychologist who is, apparen…
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By Stephen P. White But first a note: Be sure to tune in tonight - Thursday, September 5th at 8 PM Eastern - to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse on 'The World Over.' TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Father Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss the ongoing Asian journey of Pope Francis, as well as other d…
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By David G Bonagura, Jr. We hear it said ad nauseam: "Our society is so polarized." "Polar," or "related to the geographic pole," is more dramatic than "divided." To speak of things as polar opposites separates factions or ideas as far as possible from one another. Standard education these days assumes that Europe, beginning with the Reformation, b…
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Reconciliation Unexpected: The Cross (Kerygma Part 3)
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There is a big difference between knowing about God and actually knowing God. As Dr. Edward Sri continues his series on the Kerygma, he breaks open reconciliation with God. Each of us struggles with sin. In some way or another, sin has had a hold over us. Dr. Sri explains how Jesus freed us and reconciles us to himself. Snippet from the Show The de…
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By Randall Smith At Mass the other day, I heard that passage in the Gospel of Matthew where Jesus says: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, saying, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood…
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By St. Pope John Paul II Through work man must earn his daily bread and contribute to the continual advance of science and technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural and moral level of the society within which he lives in community with those who belong to the same family. And work means any activity by man, whether manual or …
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By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza In these slow-waning days of summer, I've found myself thinking about priests in the movies. For such an infinitesimally tiny part of the population, Catholic priests show up on screen rather more often than you would expect. Great actors seem to want to try their theatrical hand at playing priests. And audiences enjoy wa…
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By John M. Grondelski As Labor Day approaches, it's worth thinking about something that is inevitably a phase of everyone's life: retirement. Discussions about retirement these days often devolve into talk about the pending crisis of Social Security. That's an important question, of course, but shifting what should be a reflection of the years of l…
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By Michael Pakaluk For us, Pimlico is a racetrack near Baltimore, which hosts the Preakness Stakes. But for G.K. Chesterton it was a district in London which, although once fashionable, had declined by the time he wrote Orthodoxy (1908) into a much despised "slum." St. Theresa of Avila once likened life in this world to a night in a bad inn. Cheste…
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By Francis X. Maier This was a memorable August in our family for two reasons. Here's the first: We witnessed something miraculous. Or at least preternatural. One of our nation's two major political parties had its quadrennial convention. And its nominee for president was transformed, overnight, from an aggressive, cackling clown-harpy to an inspir…
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Our Rebellion & Our Mortal Wound (Kerygma Part 2)
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It is easy to look at the world and see what a mess it is and to blame the world around us for the anxiety and fear we experience. However, we often fail to see the darkness and woundedness within ourselves. Dr. Edward Sri continues his five part series on the Kerygma by discussing the brokenness within each of us and how we must acknowledge it in …
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