Tag: Catholic

On Loyalty – The Catholic Thing

Loyalty is a republican virtue, and more than that.  “The American people have been chary of the word loyalty, perhaps because they regard it as the correlative of royalty,” Orestes Brownson says, in his great work on our country, The American…

Two for Catholic Schools Week

Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg If you send your children to a Catholic school, you should ask the principal or a teacher if they can answer two questions: “What is a human person?” and “What is the purpose of an education?” You’ll likely hear about…

God in Winter – The Catholic Thing

Msgr. Charles Pope, Community in Mission Tuesday, January 27, 2026 These midwinter days, don’t miss God’s gift. It is true, it comes at the price of weather-related hardships. But MAYBE just maybe, God can get a few of us to stop, for just a…

War – The Catholic Thing

War is a dreadful thing. If we find glory in it, it’s because we admire soldiers for their bravery, prowess, and sacrifice. I’ve known soldiers who march in parades on Memorial Day or the Fourth of July and are proud of their service, exactly as…

Are All Welcome? – The Catholic Thing

In 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 Are Welcome.” It’s a signal to our therapeutic culture that (spoiler alert) the good priest…