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Robert Royal
Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are Columbus and the Crisis of the West and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.
The Time of the Gentiles
Monday, April 1, 2024
Synodal News and a Papal Saga
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
History, Sacred and Not
Monday, March 11, 2024
Candid Catholicism
Monday, February 26, 2024
Memo to Tucho
Monday, February 12, 2024
Untimely Reflections on ‘Hate’
Monday, January 22, 2024
Reality Is Greater Than Their Ideas
Monday, January 15, 2024
By Their Fruits
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
‘The World’s Desire’
Monday, December 25, 2023
‘The Only Truth on Earth’
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Of Pilgrimages and Synodality
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
‘Holiness Rather Than Peace’
Monday, November 27, 2023
The Remedy for Our Confusions
Monday, November 13, 2023
The Greatest Catholic Event Since Vatican II?
Monday, October 30, 2023
There’s Got to Be a Better Way
Monday, October 23, 2023
Homophobia & Homo Sapiens
Monday, October 16, 2023
Confusion Worse Confounded
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Beauty Will Save the World
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Get Ready for Some Explosions
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Psychopaths in Power
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Something’s Wrong in Rome
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
St. Augustine’s Two Trees
Monday, August 28, 2023
An Ancient Dialogue
Monday, August 21, 2023
Lights in the East
Monday, July 31, 2023
Is Catholicism ‘Inadequate’?
Monday, July 24, 2023
Summer Life Lines
Monday, July 17, 2023
The Synod, Just Once More, for Now
Monday, July 10, 2023
A Synod of No Surprises
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
The Gentleman from Verona
Monday, June 19, 2023
You Do Belong Here
Monday, June 12, 2023
Simple – and Not So Simple – Gifts
Monday, May 29, 2023
To What Shall We Compare the Present Age?
Monday, May 15, 2023
Living through an Apocalypse
Monday, May 8, 2023
A Great Recent Ancestor
Monday, May 1, 2023
The Two Lords of the World – and Us
Monday, April 24, 2023
Getting Serious about the Synod
Monday, April 17, 2023
Mystery Week
Monday, April 3, 2023
The Francis Effect, Ten Years On
Monday, March 13, 2023
The Ruinous Rhetoric of ‘Synodal Interpretation’
Monday, March 6, 2023
Having a Good/Bad Lent
Monday, February 27, 2023
The Synodal Way’s Great Expectations
Monday, February 13, 2023
Tolle, Lege
Monday, January 30, 2023
Everything Begins in Mysticism
Monday, January 23, 2023
Life, By the Numbers, Revisited
Friday, January 20, 2023
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Monday, January 16, 2023
Benedict XVI: A Tribute
Monday, January 2, 2023
What Child Is This?
Friday, December 23, 2022
Of Witness and the Only True Safety
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Having and Not Having
Monday, November 28, 2022
To Stay in the Fight
Monday, November 21, 2022
