The Image of Decisiveness
St. Cajetan Nobility offers an interesting pair of essays. The first features gorgeous photos of hummingbirds and a reflection on how they go about their business. The second discusses how modern people do not...
Category: Restoration Reader
A Time of Fullness
Feast of the Transfiguration See how tenderly Holy Mother Church looks after us in this short Vultus Christi post on the feast of the Transfiguration and the beautiful “Blessing of Grapes”. James V. Schall, S.J.,...
The Great Leveling
Our Lady of the Snow In this Artsmash blog post, Tim Smith, the fine arts critic at The Baltimore Sun, draws a worrisome conclusion from listening to old recordings and comparing them to the way...
A Very Powerful Armor Against Hell
St. Dominic On this feast of St. Dominic, do you hear your mother calling? Jeff Stempel reminds us “Why We Should Pray the Rosary Daily” in this essay for Steve Skojek’s new site, One Peter...
The Two Living Springs of All Our Blessings
Octave of the Sacred Heart Are you, like Thomas Jefferson, too enlightened to believe in the miracles of the Bible? Marcellino D’Ambrosio explores this question in his excellent piece for Catholic Exchange, “The Fourth...
Independence, Patriotism, and War
Pope St. Leo II Americans take independence seriously, but they tend to pull the trigger of a gun rather than the lever of a voting booth when it comes to making decisions about breaking...
My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord
Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary In this TIA piece, Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveira describes Mary’s Magnificat as an “artistic work of logic,” in this admirable analysis in honor of today’s...
Look at the Children Who Aren’t There
Feast of the Most Precious Blood In “The one about. . .The Entire Sad Contraception Issue Explained,” Ann Barnhardt deals quickly and fearlessly with what people have always believed about contraception, deftly pulls in...
To Think Poetically and Imaginatively
Commemoration of St. Paul Writing for Classical Teacher, David Wright shows how some things are best communicated by poetry–not by measuring and calculating as scientists do. Carefully, Wright takes us by the hand and walks...
