The Catholic Thing — Articles — Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

‘Dignitas infinita’: John Paul Returns?

One citation does not a summer make, but perhaps Dignitas marks a spring thaw, and John Paul the Great is now the saint that can come in from the cold.

Newman House ManagerApril 29, 2024The Catholic Thing, Church Affairs

The Eclipse and the Annunciation

For that singular moment in Nazareth, the moon determined whether the sunlight – the Son’s light – would reach the world.

Newman House ManagerApril 7, 2024The Catholic Thing, Faith

Good Friday and the Stigmata

The Christian vocation to be “another Christ” was lived to such an extent by Francis that the very term alter Christus was applied to him early on.

Newman House ManagerMarch 29, 2024The Catholic Thing, Faith

Pope Francis at Eleven

It is impossible to imagine that eleven years into John Paul’s pontificate anyone would seriously think it time to begin again to figure out the pontificate.

Newman House ManagerMarch 16, 2024Church Affairs, The Catholic Thing

Dead Synodality

The rickety ship Synodality has been taking on water. Pope Francis will heroically try to bring it into port this year before it sinks, but it won’t be easy.

Newman House ManagerFebruary 26, 2024Church Affairs, The Catholic Thing

Fiducia Supplicans’ Geography of Sin

An ideological group that includes the Orthodox Churches and the Dutch, Hungarian, and Polish bishops, among others, is perhaps not as small as the Vatican would like to think.

Newman House ManagerFebruary 5, 2024The Catholic Thing, Church Affairs

Twenty Questions for Cardinal Fernández (and Pope Francis?)

At the Vatican, in the week before Christmas – same-sex blessings were hung by the chimney with care, in the hopes that Fr. James Martin soon would be there.

Newman House ManagerJanuary 3, 2024The Catholic Thing, Church Affairs