Dying Towns and Looking Underground
The Presentation of Our Lady American small towns have been on life support since the end of WWII. The development of factory farming by giant corporations played a big role in their demise, but...
Author: Stephen Heiner
In the Beginning was the Word
St. Edmund the Martyr Word Woe: Oxford Dictionaries names “selfie” the word of the year, says Salon. Surely its rise to fame must be in proportion to the decrease in the prayerful aspiration, “Jesus.” ...
Come, Happy December
Join Fr. Richard G. Cipolla in drawing the curtain closed on this liturgical year in this sermon for the last Sunday after Pentecost, brought to you by Rorate Caeli. In this Imaginative Conservative essay,...
When Men Lead, Women Are Best Cared For
St. Odo of Cluny Birth Without Fear’s “Mothering the Mother: 40 Days of Rest,” exposes the toll that the collapse of our culture has taken on birthing moms, from the medicalization of delivery to the...
All Francis Friday
St. Albert the Great Put on your VII glasses. Francis congratulates the FSSP on its anniversary, and we learn the true price for being “in communion” with the novus ordo church. Catholic Family News...
Nourishing Tradition
St. Laurence O’Toole In today’s edition of Quidlibet, Fr. Anthony Cekada tells how his organ training allowed him to pass on to a youth at St. Gertrude’s, Andrew Richesson, the “tradition of improvisation stretching...
Serving the Master
Pope St. Nicholas I The faithful swineherd, waiting for his master to return, is a model for all Catholics. John Cuddeback develops this theme in “Keeping Faith by Keeping Swine,” part 1 of a...
Aspiring to Style, Eschewing Fashion
St. Nilus Writing for Intercollegiate Review, Robert Reilly gives us a lesson in what it means to have style and how style is not fashion. Practicing Catholic hospitality on a budget? Bon Appétit offers...
Immerse Yourself in Tradition
St. Martin of Tours “Advent is Coming!” Finer Femininity discusses Advent traditions and urges readers to start planning now. TiA presents an excerpt from Msgr. Delassus’ work that explains how virtues and family traditions...
All Francis Friday: Nov. 8, 2013
“Deep abiding friendship.” “Heartfelt and intuitive relationship.” Ah! The joys of ecumenism! This National Catholic Register article details Francis’ warm and fuzzy relationship with the Jews and even has some interesting things to say...
