When the Poor See Beauty
Pope St. Martin Are material needs the only concern of the poor? Do only rich people need beauty? An architecture professor at Notre Dame considers what the poor need in Catholic church design, in...
Monthly Archive: November 2014
Kindness Is As the Bloom Upon the Fruit
St. Martin of Tours Fr. Lasance encourages us to practice kindness like a prayer, continually, in this excerpt from his book, Kindness, The Bloom of Charity, on the Finer Femininity blog. Reassuring news: There are still...
To Honor St. Francis
St. Andrew Avellino They’ve been painstakingly cleaning each delicate page with a brush, and now thirteen medieval manuscripts from the Sacred Convent of St. Francis in Assisi plus some other artifacts will leave Italy...
From the Pulpit, Episode 31: The Dangers of Pride
In this episode of From the Pulpit, Abbot Leonard Giardina (+1922-2011) informs us on the dangers of pride. How often do we let our “self-esteem” justify our prideful thoughts, words, and actions? The message...
There is No Sheepfold Left
In this powerful Crisis essay, “Who Will Rescue the Lost Sheep of the Lonely Revolution,” Anthony Esolen speaks for the victims of Vatican II–the children of divorce, the abandoned spouses, the lonely youth who...
Time Levels All Fields
A philosophy professor wades deep into T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets to help us understand what the poet is trying to communicate about time, in this thought-provoking essay for The University Bookman. The fruit of...
Pastoralia, Episode 8: Catholic Parenting (Part 1)
On this month’s episode of Pastoralia, we take on a perennial topic in part 1 of a 2 part discussion: the Catholic understanding of parenting and the raising of children. This is a topic...
With Gracious and Charitable Compliance
St. Charles Borromeo Look, Ma, no screens: Interact in a positive manner with others, in person, every day. In case you need ideas on how to get started, this Integrated Catholic Life piece lists...
If We Are Never Prepared to Renounce Our Own Will
All Souls Day Can Catholic wives ever hear too much about obedience when they are deluged daily with feminist messages? Finer Femininity’s “Obedience is Tough,” is a booster shot of Catholic teaching for the...
