Category: David G. Bonagura Jr.

To Stay in the Fight

by bcadmin | Nov 21, 2022 | 2022, Anthony Esolen, Brad Miner, Catholic Church, Catholic response to the culture war, Catholicism, Columns, Dante’s Divine Comedy, David G. Bonagura Jr., David Warren, Father Peter Stravinskas, Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Fr. Joseph Koterski, James V. Schall, Jesus Christ, Michael Foley, new TCT course on More's UTOPIA, News, Pope Francis, Ralph McInenry, Robert Royal, Sr. Augustine's City of God, St. Augustine's Confessions, support The Catholic Thing, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

People often ask me: What can I do about the current state of the Church and the world? The question…

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Religion For and Against America

by bcadmin | Oct 22, 2022 | 2022, American Founder's belief in the necessity of religion, Bonagurs's "Religion For and Against America", Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr., George Washington, John Adams, News, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Up the main staircase of my alma mater is a unique and unsigned bas-relief sculpture. It resembles Raphael’s The School…

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Of Feasts and Families

by bcadmin | Sep 14, 2022 | 2020, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr., David Hume, feeding the homeless, George J. Marlin, Jesus Christ, Lk 14:13, Michael Pakaluk, News, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

I don’t know a command of Jesus that seems to have been so universally disobeyed as the one we heard…

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Forming ‘Warriors and Adventurers’ in Christ’s Army

by bcadmin | Aug 18, 2022 | 2022, Bonagura's "Forming 'Warriors and Adventurers' in Christ’s Army", Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr., education children in the Catholic faith, News, Randall Smith, Robert Royal, setting a Catholic example as parents, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

We all know the grim statistics: a mere quarter of Catholics attend Mass each Sunday. Half of those do not…

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The Long and the Short of It

by bcadmin | May 16, 2022 | 2022, battling for Catholic truth, Brad Miner, Cardinal Gerhard L. Mueller, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr., G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, News, on the verge of a post-Roe era, Robert Royal, spring fundraising TCT, The Catholic Thing, The Long and the Short of It: donate to The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Every few months, I receive a message from one or another of our readers thanking us for The Catholic Thing,…

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Religious Liberty Now

by bcadmin | Feb 13, 2022 | 2022, Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr., Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule, make disciples of all nations, martyrdom, News, Persecution, Religious Liberty Now, The Catholic Thing, tribulation | 0 |

“I humbly request that you lose the victim mentality,” a critic wrote to me recently, arguing that ours is a…

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Transforming Catholic Schools

by bcadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholic Education Week, Catholic Textbook Project, Catholicism, Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr., Duc In Altum Schools Collaborative, Ignatius Press, Institute for Catholic Liberal Education (ICLE), Midwest Theological Forum, News, Pontifex University, Sophia Institute for Teachers, Tan Books, The Augustine Institute, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

David G. Bonagura, Jr.: Why should Catholic schools use secular educational methods and textbooks? Return to core Catholic teaching & books.

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Being Catholic in the Workplace

by bcadmin | Jan 12, 2022 | 2022, Being Catholic in the Workplace, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christ on the Way to Calvary by Titian, Christifideles Laici, Columns, courageous Christians, David G. Bonagura Jr., hostility to faith on the job, Jesus Christ, Museo del Prado, News, Pope St. John Paul II, take up your cross, The Catholic Thing, Triune God | 0 |

David G. Bonagura: Our workplaces are ever more hostile to faith. But we can be Catholics in a post-Christian world by carrying the Cross.

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Two Commentaries on Liturgy

by bcadmin | Dec 21, 2021 | 2021, Anthony Esolen, Archbishop Arthur Roche, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr., Jesus Christ, Latin liturgy, News, Pope Francis, RESPONSA AD DUBIA on certain provisions of the Apostolic Letter TRADITIONIS CUSTODES issued “Motu Proprio”, The Catholic Thing, The Death of Liturgy, the Latin Mass, The Mass and Our Unity, TLM, Traditionis custodes, Two Commentaries on Liturgy | 0 |

Esolen and Bonagura: Latin is purged from the Roman Catholic Church in the name of unity. Why are we eliminating the work of 2000 years?

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The Heresy of the Two Testament God

by bcadmin | Dec 13, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Daily Conclave Report, David G. Bonagura Jr., Father, God, Jesus Christ, New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old is revealed in the New, News, Old and New Testaments, St. Augustine, The Catholic Thing, The Heresy of the Two-Testament God, unity of the testaments | 0 |

David G. Bonagura, Jr.: St. Augustine wrote that the New Testament is hidden in the Old Testament. We must unify, not divide, Old and New.

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The Last Acceptable Prejudice

by bcadmin | Nov 22, 2021 | 2021, Anti-Catholicism, apathy, birth dearth, Columns, Culture of Death, David G. Bonagura Jr., de-Christianized age, death, Kennedy family, large families, News, population dearth, Ps 91:14, Selfishness, The Catholic Thing, The Last Acceptable Prejudice | 0 |

David Bonagura: Large families may grow tired of jabs and jeers, but will endure with patience. They seek God’s approbation, not society’s.

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Judas Received Communion – Should Biden?

by bcadmin | Oct 28, 2021 | 1 Cor 11:27, 2021, Biden's scandal, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr., denial of Holy Communion, Hyde Amendment, Jesus Christ, John 17:12, John 6:54, Judas Iscariot, Judas Received Communion – Should Biden?, Matt 23:4, Matt 3:15, News, President Biden abortion, The Catholic Thing, Women’s Health Protection Act | 0 |

David G. Bonagura, Jr.: Judas received Communion for a reason, which shows why Mr. Biden ought not to receive or be admonished if he insists.

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