U.S. Catholic bishops and allied Catholic medical organizations have urged the Labor Department to reject a proposed rule expanding insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization. They are citing serious moral objections to the destruction of…
Last Sunday, at the small parish in the mountain village where I was on vacation, they sang – remarkably – all nine stanzas of Isaac Watts’s famous hymn, “O God Our Help in Ages Past.” It was sung as the closing hymn, putting to the test those…
French military schools face a backlash after excluding Catholic pupils, exposing ideological bias and raising concerns over future army recruitment. The post Too Catholic to be French officers appeared first on The Catholic Thing.…
As a young man of around fourteen or fifteen, it was an amusement, late at night in my bedroom in England, gently to move the dial on the shortwave section of my radio until it picked up the faint crackling broadcasts of Radio Tirana. It was the…
It is no secret that a great deal of our Catholic charitable work is funded by government grants. This makes our charitable work beholden to whoever holds political office and is willing to pay. The post The dangers…
One of the best ways to keep everybody angry, and thus to let us share in the modern experience, is to use words in a left-brained sort of way. I refer, of course, to Iain McGilchrist, the writer who has given us the most thorough and accessible…
The head of the Archdiocese of San Francisco weighed in in favor of Heartbeat International’s quest to defend Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) on social media on Tuesday. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone called for prayer on X for Thomas More Society…
After more than fifty years of various attempts at reconciliation and normalization—attempts that have been met with rejection after rejection from the SSPX—the Vatican has finally decided that it is time to stop pretending that such a…
Magnifica humanitas has been widely discussed for its approach to artificial intelligence. Pope Leo emphasizes the importance of the schools for training people to retain their humanity in the face of these challenges. If we took the encyclical…
When J.D. Vance’s memoir of his path back to Christianity, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, is described at a high level of generality, we see immediately that it is a book of the highest importance. Here is a leader on the world stage…
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