Pope Leo XIV embarked on his fifth international Apostolic Journey since the beginning of his pontificate recently when he went to France. While many hailed the trip as a success, certain Catholic ...

I spoke the other day with my daughter Shannon, who is a month into her freshman year of college. I expected her to tell me about her first taste of big-time Deep South college football—all about Ole ...

In an article published at The Catholic Thing on September 18, 2026, Dmitri Solzhenitsyn endeavors to summarize for readers what he calls “The Original ‘Liturgy Wars’: Between East and West.” His ...

Dorothy Day’s own post-conversion writings and actions might be enough to disqualify her from consideration for canonization ...

In the newest book-length interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, the beloved African prelate once again warns the West about ...

On the surface, it seemed like a typical campaign commercial. Sarah Huckabee Sanders explains her welfare reform policy by depicting a slovenly young man playing video games and requiring him to find ...

While Close Encounters of the Third Kind could not be called a Christian-themed film, it draws on and out a childlike wonder found in a light that is not of this world. This should scarcely come as a ...

The story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is usually told as a morality tale about lying: a warning that if we tell lies, no one will believe us when we are telling the truth. But the real lesson of the ...

I dropped my youngest son off August 22 as a freshman at Rochester Institute of Technology. I couldn’t help reflecting that—almost to the day—49 years earlier I started as a freshman at St. Mary’s ...

The late Vincent Canby, chief arbiter of taste on matters of theater and cinema, who, from his lofty perch at The New York Times would regularly lay down the law and the prophets, must have cranked ...

After weeks of intense debate, Lindsay Clancy’s case was declared a mistrial. Due to one brave juror who refused to acquit a woman who murdered her three young children in cold blood, a unanimous ...

Massachusetts Question 8—regarding shutting down the legal recreational market for marijuana—is a matter of not just protecting the innocent and guilty alike but protecting the human soul. Like many ...