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Why the God-Man?

1 week ago | thecatholicthing.org | Robert Royal

Most Christians – though far from all, in the current decay of education of all kinds, including religious education – know that the events we commemorate this week have had the most wide-ranging effects of anything that has happened in the entire history of the human race. And beyond, into the next world. Anyone, Christian or not, who looks back in time without a jaundiced eye, has to recognize that the Christian revolution has touched virtually everything.
A Full and Empty World

1 week ago | thecatholicthing.org | Auguste Meyrat

In the New York Time’s list of “The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” the critics placed Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, and by extension the next three books of her Neapolitan series, at the very top. In their estimation, these books represent the best literature of the last quarter century. Even for those who have read the series (or watched the TV adaptation), it’s not exactly clear why this is the number one book of our day. In style and substance, Ferrante hardly breaks new ground.
JD Vance to visit Rome for Easter - The Catholic Thing

3 weeks ago | thecatholicthing.org | Tyler Arnold

The vice president plans to arrive in Rome on Good Friday, April 18, and depart from the city on Easter Sunday, April 20, according to email correspondence. American diplomats are
A Tour of the Horizon

3 weeks ago | thecatholicthing.org | Robert Royal

Looking at the way that the human race manages its affairs is enough – if such were possible – to make angels weep. Or laugh. For most of its existence, the Church at least offered something of a counterexample, starting with surviving for 2,000 years, which isn’t likely to be the case for any current nation, international body, NGO, LGBT regime, or Silicon Valley empire. Longevity may not be proof of much, but it is proof of life, despite radical historical changes.
The Leopard, the Mafia, and Us

1 month ago | thecatholicthing.org | Robert Royal

“NUNC et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen. The daily recital of the Rosary was over. For half an hour the steady voice of the Prince had recalled the Glorious and the Sorrowful Mysteries; for half an hour other voices had interwoven a lilting hum from which, now and again, would chime some unlikely word: love, virginity, death. .
Unboxing the Church

1 month ago | thecatholicthing.org | Casey Chalk

“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church,” famously opined Venerable Servant of God Fulton Sheen, “but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” I’d go a step further: if there’s one thing that people, regardless of their religious affiliation, feel competent and confident to speak on, it seems to be the Catholic Church. Everybody seems to know what it teaches and why, and, by extension, why it’s dead wrong.
A Catholic Call to Abolish Antisemitism

1 month ago | thecatholicthing.org | Mary Eberstadt

Simone Rizkallah, PhilosCatholic: Mary, just two weeks after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, you delivered the keynote address at a conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville titled “Nostra Aetate and the Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations at a Time of Rising Antisemitism.” That same week, you published an article in the National Catholic Register titled “Catholics Against Antisemitism: Now More Than Ever.” You pointed to Nostra Aetate, promulgated in 1965: the Church’s...
You Will Be Hated by All Nations

1 month ago | thecatholicthing.org | Robert Royal

In just the past few days, hundreds of Christians have been murdered, raped, and tortured in Syria. When news outlets even notice what’s happening – yesterday’s New York Times only carried an “update” of a previous article and the Washington Post’s latest story on the massacres appeared Friday – they usually only mention the attacks on “civilians” or Alawites, the Islamic sect followed by the al-Assad family, the former rulers of Syria.
Lent and the Back of Beyond

1 month ago | thecatholicthing.org | Robert Royal

The Cloud of Unknowing is probably the most popular mystical treatise in English, a sort of bestseller when it was written in the 1300s (when England was still Catholic), often republished over centuries, and a favorite of recent, highly discerning figures like C.S. Lewis.
The Iconic City That Isn’t

1 month ago | thecatholicthing.org | Auguste Meyrat

In any discussion about the foundational cities of Western civilization, most scholars would name Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome. Jerusalem was the birthplace of the great monotheistic religions that defined the West’s spirituality, morality, and civic culture. Athens was the origin of the West’s intellectual and artistic traditions.