Tag: Catholic

The True Islam – The Catholic Thing

Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will judge men on the last day” (par 16). But when…

Catholic Voters Still Back Trump

Matthew Bunson, National Catholic Register Monday, December 15, 2025 One year after the 2024 presidential election returned him to the White House, President Donald Trump remains popular among Catholic voters. That backing extends to the chief…

Nostalgia and Advent – The Catholic Thing

The word “nostalgia” was coined in the seventeenth century by a Swiss physician named Johannes Hofer. The word was a Latinized combination of two Greek words: nostos, meaning “a return home” (think Odysseus), and algos, meaning “pain.” Hofer…

Broken Altars – The Catholic Thing

On December 10, 1989, at the confluence of the Danube and Morava rivers under the shadow of Devin Castle, tens of thousands of Slovaks marched from Bratislava to Hainburg, Austria, piercing the Iron Curtain.   Large crowds also assembled at the…