Some Kind of Magical Pill
St. Bridget of Sweden Amazing to read in this NPR piece how the developers of the birth control pill had to sneak around and lie to do their research. And wouldn’t you know, a...
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To Serve our Redeemer in the Most Fitting Way
Our Lady of the Rosary The interior has no clothes? This post on the Ad Imaginem Dei blog discusses the iconoclasm of the post-Vatican II era and tries to define why beauty in church...
Bringing on the Apocowlypse?
St. Bruno Michael Pollan points out all the problems with our industrialized food system in this interview, “The End of the World as We Know It”, with special emphasis on its dependence on petroleum-based...
Pesky Catholic Doctrines
St. Therese of Lisieux Crisis Magazine’s “Protecting God’s Word from Bible Christians,” by Richard Becker, provides an easy-to-digest overview of why the Catholic Church’s use of the deuterocanonical books is correct, and why Luther’s...
The Power and Importance of Tradition
Holy Guardian Angels Powerful. Boniface at Unam Sanctam Catholicam relates two tales that clearly impart the importance of tradition, even when the reasons behind it are lost. Here’s the perfect Restorationist project–something you can...
For You Have an Immortal Soul
St. Remigius More and more the emphasis in modern life is on efficiency. But is that Catholic? In “Make Your Work an Act of Worship,” Fr. M. Raymond, OSCO, draws on traditional Church teaching,...
A Profundity and a Sorrow
St. Jerome Saints are tough, not soft and sweet playbabies. Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveira makes this point using two pictures of St. Therese and one of the Holy Shroud of Turin, in this...
In Great Need of Angelic Assistance
Dedication of St. Michael Have we forgotten the presence of the angels? “Dom” Mark Kirby, OSB, shares his Italian ancestors’ stories in relation to the angels and especially St. Michael in today’s post on...
Where the Feeble Senses Fail
St. Isaac Jogues and Jean de Brebouf Those public acts of faith are so powerful. The Dauphin models respect and reverence for the Blessed Sacrament in this short Nobility story, “The Dauphin Kneels for...
By Some Miracle of God’s Providence
Writing for NLM, Gregory Dipippo shares the powerful story of “Blessed Herman, the Cripple”. Today he most likely would have been an abortion statistic, but just look at the amazing things he accomplished and...
