Catholic Critique — Alphabetical & Topic Index

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Site summation.

Catholic Critique presents itself as “Christian World View & Analysis,” edited by Stephen Hand. Its stated purpose is not formal teaching but the sharing of opinions, interpretive principles, excerpts, reflections, and outside resources judged helpful in spiritually challenging times. The site repeatedly frames itself as Catholic, Christ-centered, culturally critical, and concerned with ecclesial destabilization, secular modernity, post-literacy, scientism, liturgy, philosophy, politics, and consolation.

A recurring note governs the project: any errors are the editor’s own, and final judgments belong to the Church. The site also states that it does not seek donations, but aims to edify, inform, and console.


Alphabetical Index — Working Edition

This is a working index based on visible public pages and archive results. It can be expanded month-by-month into a complete site index.

A

B

C

D

F

G

H

  • Heidegger in Ruins — Critiques Catholic enthusiasm for Heidegger and the philosophical consequences of abandoning realism.

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M

N

O

  • On Indulgences — Explains indulgences, temporal punishment, purgatory, and Catholic teaching.
  • Our Sunday Best — Uses James 2 and Romans 14 to warn against partiality, judgmentalism, and man-made sub-traditions.

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R

S

T

V

W

Y


Topic Index

1. Christ, Scripture, Prayer, and Devotion

Theme: Christ is not treated as a vague religious symbol but as the center of history, grace, judgment, sacrifice, and hope.

2. Catholic Doctrine, Magisterium, Tradition, and Liturgy

Theme: The site defends Catholic continuity while warning against both rupture and judgmental sub-traditionalism.

3. Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Theology

Theme: The site returns often to first principles: being, truth, realism, Christology, and the dangers of subtle beginnings in error.

4. Science, Scientism, Evolution, and AI

Theme: The site distinguishes science from scientism and resists technological or Darwinian reductionism.

5. Reading, Humanities, Education, and Post-Literacy

Theme: Reading is presented as spiritual, intellectual, and civilizational resistance to flattening by screens and AI.

6. Culture, Music, Film, and the Arts

Theme: Culture is approached as a field of discernment, recreation, memory, and spiritual danger or consolation.

7. Politics, Ideology, and the Modern West

Theme: The site critiques ideological capture, cultural derangement, secular revolution, and political confusion from a Christian worldview.

8. Saints, Witnesses, Catholic Worker, and Moral Imagination

Theme: The site honors witnesses who illuminate suffering, poverty, faithfulness, and the drama of Christian conscience.

9. Spiritual Warfare, Temptation, and Discernment

Theme: The site treats evil not merely as politics or psychology but as spiritual reality requiring prayer, courage, and discernment.

10. Aging, Consolation, Friendship, and Daily Life

Theme: The site also turns toward ordinary human vulnerability: aging, loneliness, friendship, hobbies, and perseverance.


Expansion Pass 1 — Added May–April 2026 material

Newly added alphabetical entries

Topic additions

Music, Art, and Cultural Memory

Modern Spiritual Substitutes

Ecclesial Crisis and Catholic Continuity

Philosophy, Passions, and the Soul

Aging, Limits, and Consolation


Expansion Pass 2 — March 2026

Newly added alphabetical entries

Topic additions

Marriage, Family, and Moral Theology

Heresy, Truth, and Catholic Identity

Religious Liberty and Public Life

Culture, Boundaries, and the Common Good


Expansion Pass 3 — February–January 2026

Newly added alphabetical entries

Topic additions

Scripture, Salvation History, and Christology

Apostasy, Despair, and Spiritual Warfare

Church Reform and Vatican II

Politics, Diplomacy, and the West

AI, Technology, and Self-Description


Expansion Pass 4 — December–October 2025

Newly added alphabetical entries

Topic additions

Christ, Judgment, and the Hard Sayings of the Gospel

Modern Theology, Doubt, and Biblical Criticism

Enlightenment, Ideology, and Moral Ruin

Persecution, Violence, and Public Order

Catholic Public Figures and Public Life

Incarnation, Images, and Heresy

Antichrist, Technology, and Apocalyptic Imagination

Pastoral Grief, Suicide, and Catholic Formation


Expansion Pass 5 — September–June 2025

Newly added alphabetical entries

Topic additions

Tradition, Papacy, and Ecclesial Authority

Technology, AI, Robotics, and Technocracy

Moral Theology, Bioethics, and the Body

Music, Poetry, and Consolation

Politics, Violence, War, and Public Disorder


Expansion Pass 6 — May 2025 back through January 2024

Newly added alphabetical entries

Topic additions

Papacy, Reform, and Catholic Continuity

Prayer, Perseverance, and Devotional Life

Politics, Ideology, and Public Disorder

Family, Economics, and Social Order


Expansion Pass 7 — Older archive years: 2023–2020

Archive note

The visible archive list confirms the site reaches back before 2024, including older years such as 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020. A truly exhaustive index of those earliest posts should be verified page by page, because older archive pages may have moved, changed slugs, or been reorganized.

Earliest-site summary

The earliest layer of Catholic Critique appears to establish the same governing concerns later seen throughout the site:

  1. Catholic continuity under pressure — fidelity to Christ, Scripture, Tradition, and the Church amid confusion.
  2. Global and ecclesial destabilization — war, ideological revolution, technological manipulation, and moral disorder.
  3. Curated witness — extensive sharing of outside voices: Catholic, Orthodox-adjacent, Protestant, Jewish, literary, philosophical, and political.
  4. No commercial motive — the site’s purpose is explicitly edification, information, consolation, and interpretive help.
  5. Spiritual discernment — recurring attention to deception, false peace, sentimental religion, apostasy, and the need for prayer.

Provisional older-archive topic headings

Catholic Crisis and Discernment

Christ, Scripture, and Salvation

Culture, Literature, and the Arts

Politics, War, and the Modern West

Technology, Scientism, and Modern Substitutes for God

Older posts may be gathered here when they concern AI, scientism, Darwinism, technocracy, UFOs, transhumanism, or spiritual counterfeits.