Tag: Catholic

The politics of Judas – The Catholic Thing

What motivated Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus Christ? Money? Revolutionary sentiment? If either, why did Judas bemoan his betrayal? If Judas did have such political motives, then his actions are more comprehensible to us. But the explanatory…

God Is Mocked – The Catholic Thing

Atheists blaspheme and giggle like schoolboys. They think themselves daring, subversive, deliciously cunning. But their mockery is utterly conventional. They can do no better than mimic blasphemies learned from the Gospels. Mocking God is not an…

Our Untouchables – The Catholic Thing

We pride ourselves on the fact that we don’t have a “caste system” in America, with higher and lower castes and those at the bottom who are “untouchables.” I sometimes wonder, though, whether we have something analogous in the way we distinguish…

The Altar – The Catholic Thing

A broken ALTAR, Lord thy servant rears,Made of a heart, and cemented with teares:Whose parts are as thy hand did frame;No workmans tool hath touch’d the same A HEART aloneIs such a stone,As nothing butThy pow’r doth cut.Wherefore each partOf my…