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...
Category: Restoration Reader
There is No Sheepfold Left
In this powerful Crisis essay, “Who Will Rescue the Lost Sheep of the Lonely Revolution,” Anthony Esolen speaks for the victims of Vatican II–the children of divorce, the abandoned spouses, the lonely youth who...
Time Levels All Fields
A philosophy professor wades deep into T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets to help us understand what the poet is trying to communicate about time, in this thought-provoking essay for The University Bookman. The fruit of...
With Gracious and Charitable Compliance
St. Charles Borromeo Look, Ma, no screens: Interact in a positive manner with others, in person, every day. In case you need ideas on how to get started, this Integrated Catholic Life piece lists...
If We Are Never Prepared to Renounce Our Own Will
All Souls Day Can Catholic wives ever hear too much about obedience when they are deluged daily with feminist messages? Finer Femininity’s “Obedience is Tough,” is a booster shot of Catholic teaching for the...
Pumpkins and Fallen Leaves and Straw-stuffed Scarecrows
In “October Country”, an open letter to “central, coastal Italy” Hilary White of Orwell’s Picnic implores the natives not do those “Halloweenesque” things that belong to the North and the English. Her description...
Behold, the Inheritance of the Lord are Children
“Hey Young People: Now’s the Time to Get Married and Have Kids”. The Douay-Rheims version sounds better, but Matt Walsh is right. For heaven’s sake, get on with it already. “You don’t have to...
Reassuringly Solid Contours of Truth
Sts. Simon and Jude Ellen Wilson Fielding is a regular viewer of the television series, “Say Yes to the Dress”. In this piece for The Catholic Thing, she looks at what some brides are...
The Good Accords with Reality
Reality. Many people today don’t want any part of it. That’s why we have a “gender identity” crisis, among other problems. Anthony Esolen’s piece for The Catholic Thing discusses reality and the good in the...
