#catholicthing

Being Catholic: Hard – and Joyful Being Catholic is hard work, but there is deep joy and humor in embracing the struggle of following Christ. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/09/20/being-catholic-hard-and-joyful/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Saint #Christian

Jimmy Lai, my imprisoned father, taught me that suffering is not meaningless The faith of my father has sustained him through years of imprisonment. Now, as I face cancer, his example is teaching me to find grace and meaning in my own 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/09/18/jimmy-lai-my-imprisoned-father-taught-me-that-suffering-is-not-meaningless/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Faith #Christian

Theology of the Body in the Age of AI Artificial Intelligence can simulate human thinking, but it cannot replace human nature because our true identity and purpose are defined by our physical, embodied souls. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/09/17/theology-of-the-body-in-the-age-of-ai/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Theology #Christian

The evangelization power of Rome Rome’s massive popularity as a major global destination serves as a powerful opportunity for Catholic evangelization and faith formation. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/09/16/the-evangelization-power-of-rome/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Mass #Faith

9/11 revisited If we want to call this a “war of civilization,” well and good, provided that we realize that civilizations are themselves expressions of religions, or pseudo-religions we now call “ideologies.” 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/09/15/9-11-revisited/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Christian

On the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows Today, as we celebrate the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, we contemplate Mary sharing her Son’s compassion for sinners. As Saint Bernard declares, the Mother of Christ entered into 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/09/15/on-the-memorial-of-our-lady-of-sorrows/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Saint #Christian

Sensational report from China: A new split in the Church? A Chinese bishop says that the Church in China is now experiencing “a state of emergency.” 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/09/01/sensational-report-from-china-a-new-split-in-the-church/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Bishop #Church

China pressured a U.S. Catholic group to censor its keynote speaker. They complied. A U.S.-based Catholic organization yielded to pressure from Chinese government officials to cancel a prominent professor’s invitation to speak at its conference, emails obtained by the Register show. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/09/01/china-pressured-a-u-s-catholic-group-to-censor-its-keynote-speaker-they-complied/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Christian

Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/09/01/ballade-to-our-lady-of-czestochowa-5/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Saint #Christian

St. Monica discusses the Kingdom of Heaven with her son As the day now approached on which she was to depart this life (which day Thou knew, we did not), it fell out — Thou, as I believe, by Your 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/27/st-monica-discusses-the-kingdom-of-heaven-with-her-son-2/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Saint #Christian

Catholic priest’s new study Bible brings faith and science together for a doubting generation Father Spitzer hopes readers recognize that the relationship of science and reason with faith are complementary and corroborative instead of contradictory. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/27/catholic-priests-new-study-bible-brings-faith-and-science-together-for-a-doubting-generation/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Bible #Faith #Hope

Pope Leo and fantasy camp Catholicism Church unity requires theological sobriety and ending fantasy camp thinking among progressives and traditionalists. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/27/pope-leo-and-fantasy-camp-catholicism/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #PopeLeo #Church #Tradition

O Spem Miram (O Wonderful Hope) V. O Wonderful hope which you gave to those who wept for you at the hour of your death, promising after your departure to be helpful to your brethren. R. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/10/o-spem-miram-o-wonderful-hope/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Hope #Christian

San Angelo Diocese expands Traditional Latin Mass offerings The Diocese of San Angelo will expand its Traditional Latin Mass offerings from August 30 with a monthly Mass at a church in Midland, Texas, the diocese announced on Thursday, 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/10/san-angelo-diocese-expands-traditional-latin-mass-offerings/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Mass #Church #Tradition

How to be a Dhimmi When the Church is seen to be more concerned with strangers of an alien (and unfriendly) faith than with the needs of her own people, she colludes in her own disappearance. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/10/how-to-be-a-dhimmi/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Church #Faith

Ceuta’s Camp of the Saints moment The Camp of the Saints helps us see that the root of the immigration crisis is not a material question but a spiritual sickness, as exemplified during last week’s African 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/10/ceutas-camp-of-the-saints-moment/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Saint #Christian

Kansas diocese opens new seminary more than 20 years in the making The Diocese of Wichita announced August 6 that Bishop Carl A. Kemme will formally establish St. Philip Neri Seminary, named for the 16th-century priest and founder of the Congregation of 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/10/kansas-diocese-opens-new-seminary-more-than-20-years-in-the-making-2/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Bishop #Saint

Cardinal Sarah makes the case for letting ‘Traditionis Custodes’ wither and die Cardinal Robert Sarah believes Traditionis Custodes should ideally be abrogated, but he sees its gradual disappearance as the more realistic path if formal abrogation does not happen. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/10/cardinal-sarah-makes-the-case-for-letting-traditionis-custodes-wither-and-die/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Tradition #Christian

Cathedrals Old and New Should cathedrals, symbols-in-stone of authority and permanence, be stable and never-changing? In fact, they are often in a state of flux. And sometimes, change improves them. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/09/cathedrals-old-and-new/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Christian

Hidden for centuries: Newly found sermons from St. Augustine Two previously unknown sermons by St. Augustine have been identified in a 12th-century manuscript preserved in Poland. 🔗 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/08/06/hidden-for-centuries-newly-found-sermons-from-st-augustine/ #Catholic #CatholicThing #Saint #Christian