Category: Restoration Reader

This was a Vendee Moment

St. Boniface Steve Skojec documents the great awakening–Catholics taking to the streets for Eucharistic processions and praying holy hours to protest the “black mass” at Harvard.  And it worked. Our Greatest Lie?  Unam Sanctam...

The Journey of Grief and Grace

Sts. Nereus, Achilleus, and Domitilla & Pancras The Catholic Gentleman enthusiastically reviews The Way and bills it as a “Manly Movie”.  The story is set on the ancient pilgrimage route,  Camino de Santiago. Paul...

All Francis Friday

St. Gregory Nazianzus Taking it to the peripheries?  Sandro Magister uses Pew Research survey results to show that Francis can’t use Germany’s “ideals” as the basis for changing Church teaching, not that Church teaching...

Of Kings and Crowns

St. Michael of the Apparition In this Nobility piece, a historian commissions and pays for a crown for King Richard III, whose bones were exhumed from under a parking lot in Leicester.  He was...

First Pledge of Blithesome May

St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church Yesterday, Front Porch Republic featured a poem by James Russell Lowell, “To the Dandelion”, which joyfully describes the flower as fringing “the dusty road with harmless gold.” ...

Simplicity Leaves Room for God

St. John before the Latin Gate On the occasion of his 61st birthday, David Warren reminisces about the quiet retreats he has been blessed to occupy, striving always for a life apart from the...

Look Up, Take a Stand, Be a Hero

Pope St. Pius V “Fr.” Peter Carota of Traditional Catholic Priest documents the magnificent accomplishments of Pope St. Pius V in a papacy of only six years. Some people are missing.  Hilary Jane Margaret...

All Francis Friday

St. Athanasius Sandro Magister compares Francis’ treatment of communion for the divorced and remarried to Paul VI’s handling of contraception and concludes, “The overall effect of Francis’s strategy is a driving crescendo of anticipations...