Author: Stephen Heiner

News Roundup: Nov. 7, 2013

It all goes back to accepting him as he is.   The Wonderful World of Womanhood examines the differences between men and women and how those differences can affect a man’s willingness to make...

News Roundup: Nov. 6, 2013

Finer Femininity brings us another excerpt from Light and Peace, this time an excellent review of confession with several good quotes from St. Francis de Sales. “When Alaric the Visigoth sacked Rome in the...

News Roundup: Nov. 5, 2013

So you need to grow some food for your family but have limited space?  Good fences make good eating, according to Charlie Nardozzi in “Growing an Edible Hedge”, but don’t neglect some important non-edibles...

News Roundup: November 4, 2013

St. Charles Borromeo H. E. Bishop Daniel Dolan highlights some of the special qualities of St. Charles Borromeo in this 9-minute sermon. With the encouragement of Pope St. Pius X, a priest opened a...

News Roundup: October 31, 2013

St. Wolfgang Francis a Modernist?  “Rubbish,” says Cardinal Pell, who, like Francis, also believes atheists go to heaven, as reported by the SSPX. “Mock the devil”, says Magdalene Zapp, in this mini rant on...

News Roundup: October 30, 2013

On the Circe blog, Joshua Leland praises form and is convinced that one of his primary duties as a father is to teach his children to love it. Seeking new paths?  Catholic Culture reports that...

News Roundup: October 29, 2013

All Souls Day is Saturday.   Enroll your loved ones in St. Gertrude the Great’s Purgatorian Society. Going overboard:  Finer Femininity helps us keep our perspective on mortification in “Penance–Light and Peace, Quadrupani” The incredible...

News Roundup: October 28, 2013

The first part of this NLM interview  with His Excellency Athanasius Schneider ORC, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan and titular of Celerina, describes his childhood in the USSR and how his family saved their...

All Francis Friday: October 25, 2013

There is a “climate of terror” in the curia?  Sandro Magister says Francis’ brisk removal of directors who do not share his “theological-liturgical sensibilities” not only frightens the directors whose positions have only been...