The World and Its Desires Pass Away
St. Catherine of Alexandria “What man, stationed in a foreign land, would not want to return to his own country as soon as possible?” asks St. Cyprian in a meditation that is quoted in...
Category: Restoration Reader
The Periodic Necessity of Making God Your Only Companion
St. John of the Cross Even Jesus didn’t stay “connected” all the time. “There must be times when a soul petitions the Father in solitude,” says Mark Bauerlein in First Thing’s Prayer in the...
Is This Cross Really Sweet, Like the Lord Says?
St. Elizabeth of Hungary “Love consumes you, but it is beautiful to die consumed…” Can we ever hear too many stories of everyday Catholics who suffer with heroic joy? Chiara Corbella’s story is one...
The Sufferings of This Present Time
Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Pray first for acceptance. The father of an autistic son explains what he learned from a priest about prayer in this poignant essay for...
To Regain a Childlike Vision of the World
St. Gregory Thaumaturgus In this heartwarming and charming FPR piece, a Jack Baker guides his 8-year-old son, Owen, through a review of Terrapin, a new poetry collection by Wendell Berry. Completing the magic,...
The Evils of Political Medicine and Medical Politics
St. Albert the Great Abortion and ebola. Anthony Esolen reveals the hidden link in this essay for The Catholic Thing. In this longish One Peter Five piece, Steve Skojec mourns the loss of the...
A Joyful Witness for Christ and His Church
St. Didacus Historically American Catholics have struggled to fit in with a predominantly Protestant culture. In this Integrated Catholic piece, Randy Hain examines the contemporary Catholic’s discomfort with being “authentically Catholic” at work. Good...
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...
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...
