Category: Restoration Reader

Too Much Lust for the Gadget

Sts. Titus and Dorothy In this latest episode of In Veritate, His Excellency Bishop Donald Sanborn prepares the way for a fruitful Lent with two sermons, one on the responsible use of money, and...

A Season of Penance and Ascetical Warfare

St. Agatha In this timely Catholic Gentleman post, Sam Guzman offers encouragement and seven well thought out suggestions for having a spiritually efficacious Lent. It’s not just for fundamentalists any more.  Techies are taking to homeschooling,...

The Celestial Reality

Candlemas John Cuddeback brings to light the relationship between the philosophy of Aristotle and the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas in this short piece on Bacon from Acorns. I don’t think he would approve...

There’s a Movement in the Hearts of Men

St. Martina Was your hand made for a hoe? This Catholic Gentleman piece asserts that there’s a genuine Catholic land movement going on. “Keep Calm and Reproduce,” solemnly pronounces Lapham’s Quarterly in the title...

Humbly Submitting Yourself to Books

St. Francis de Sales Is the goal of higher education wisdom or efficiency?  Intercollegiate Review’s essay, “What Kindle Readers Should Take from Plato,” encourages  Kindle readers to flex their brain muscles, ignore the text search feature,...

A Dangerous, but Necessary Thing

St. Peter Nolasco “Praying for Humility” on Those Catholic Men, helps us understand the virtue of humility by using the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val’s Litany of Humility, and a prayer...

It is Not Good for Man to Be Alone

St. Raymond of Pennafort Down with the nuclear family!  Dr. Mitchell Kalpakjian argues that “nearness to extended family provides more opportunities for friendships, hospitality, conversation, practical advice, and acts of kindness and charity,” in...