Entries by The Catholic Thing

Does the Catholic Vote Matter in 2024?

George J. Marlin: The long and the short of it is that even though the number of practicing Catholics is declining, they still matter in 2024 – although it may be the “Last Hurrah.” After Kamala Harris declined the invitation to be on the dais of the famous Al Smith Dinner hosted by the Archbishop of […]

Badass Christianity

David Warren: We all fall – into Hell, as it were – when established truth is abandoned. We begin by challenging “spiritual” truth, but material truth follows down the hole. At the present time, and under current conditions, in most public places, I would say that reciting the Athanasian Creed would be an example of “badass […]

Will ‘Generation Z’ Take Us All to Hell?

David Warren: We were counting on the younger generation to provide us with further generations of kids, but they seem to have come to believe that they have better things to do. “Well done, good and faithful servant,” as we said to ourselves in thinking (here) of Saint Bruno today, that courageous enemy of decadence and […]

No Politics is Local Now

Stephen P. White: We live in an age in which our very notions of citizenship and public life are increasingly malformed by media. We’re not better for it. In his 1985 classic, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman offered a critique of the social and political changes brought about by the ubiquity of television in American society. […]

The Self-Alienation of Cultural Marxism

Msgr. Robert J. Batule: As students head back to school this week, chances are good that campus unrest will also be returning. A reality check is in order. As students are returning to school this week, chances are very good that campus unrest will return as well with the new academic year. And given the presidential […]

The Catholic Bogeyman

Fr. Jerry J. Pokorsky: The center of anti-Catholic gravity has moved from nativists to atheists – and pro-abortion “anti-Catholic Catholics” such as Biden, Pelosi, and Gavin Newsom. The ribald – and often insightful – 1960s comedian Lenny Bruce once quipped: “Everybody knows which church you’re talking about when you talk about The Church.” The Catholic Church […]

A Catholic Crash Course in American Politics

Auguste Meyrat: One of the many benefits of Christian belief is the ability to transcend partisanship and seek solutions that respect the dignity and value of all people. Last year, Pope Francis complained that the American Catholic Church has become too political. Instead of preaching the true faith, he claimed, certain clergy will use their spiritual authority to […]

On Christian Nationalism

David Carlin: American Catholics don’t have a choice of whether or not to be Christian nationalists.  We are condemned to be Christian nationalists.  Our only choice is between (a) being a good and wise Christian nationalist and (b) being a bad and foolish Christian nationalist. I have a confession to make: I am a Christian nationalist. Or to […]

What Is Philosophy?

David Warren: One may have much leisured fun comparing the ancient to the modern academic philosophers. It is the difference between a life of free participation and a life in the service of a bureaucracy. Philosophy is a subject by itself, distinct from religion but, more importantly, not subsidiary to one, another, or all of the […]