Amidst a Vast Sea of Farm Land
“Home.” Kevin Ford of The New Catholic Land Movement reminisces about growing up in St. Leo, KS, as he prepares to relocate and shift to livestock farming. If Pope Pius X were alive today,...
Category: Restoration Reader
Latin and Logic: Good Thinking
St. John Cantius Maybe we should “all speak Latin all the time.” This Washington Post article pitches “active Latin” as the answer to higher level reading and thinking skills. Inoculate your children against Modernism....
Adoption on My Mind
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Here is a tragic story with a happy ending, via LifeNews. A teenaged unwed mom makes the same mistake twice, yet manages to make the best decision for her children....
We’ve Never Been Lonelier
St. Hedwig Did you know that 150 is a magic number? According to this NPR piece from Goats and Soda blog, it is. The author, Diane Cole, talks to Susan Pinker, the author of...
A Structure to Suffering
St. Theresa of Avila This short post from Just Thomism lists five elements of suffering that you may not have considered before. Number 4 is particularly interesting and definitely worth working on–great motivation for...
Brick by Brick
Pope Callixtus The aftershocks of yesterday’s midterm report on Synod14 continue to rock the blogosphere, but one of the most interesting things I have read today was actually published on Saturday–two days before the...
The Chastisement is Here
St. King Edward In case you missed today’s news storm from the Synod on the Family, this post from St. Louis Catholic provides a good overview. A more in-depth analysis with lots of related...
Beloved by God
St. Francis Borgia In “Seeing Through the Eyes of Love,” on Carrots for Michaelmas, a mama reveals her feelings at seeing her 3-year-old dance on parents’ day at the ballet studio and compares it...
The Duty to Counsel and Pray Does Not Stop
St. John Leonard “The Ways of God for Fathers: Foreknowledge,” on Those Catholic Men, guides dads through their parental role from a child’s infancy to adulthood. Calm, sensible, and reassuring. And not overly long....
Some Kind of Magical Pill
St. Bridget of Sweden Amazing to read in this NPR piece how the developers of the birth control pill had to sneak around and lie to do their research. And wouldn’t you know, a...
