Nine Bean Rows Will I Have There
Saints Felicity and Perpetua Can you dig it? Nope. Permaculture Magazine swears you can create a productive no-dig garden in one year. Southwest Michigan’s Second Wave takes readers on a tour of Nifty Hoops...
Category: Restoration Reader
Make it Count
Ash Wednesday “Make your goal massive and unreasonable so that you freak out a little,” advises Julien Smith in this blog post for Huffington Post, in which he recommends reading a book a week...
For We are Cleansed by Prayer
St. Casimir A Childlike Encounter with God: Writing for NLM, Peter Kwasniewski outlines a method for implementing the practice of lectio divina,otherwise known as praying with the Scriptures, during Lent and hopefully beyond. “Fr.”...
This Sense of Longing
St. Katherine Drexel Should we be trying to spread democracy around the world when we’re not even happy with it ourselves? Why are we Americans both “bored and uneasy?” Mark Mitchell explores “The Homeless...
All Francis Friday
St. Romanus “Cardinal” Burke, beloved of conservative Catholics, is recruited to come to the defense of Francis in this lengthy article for L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO, which explains the message of this pontificate: “The Holy Father,...
Like Looking Up at the Stars
St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows “Do not be played for chumps,”Anthony Esolen advises the school starters in this Crisis essay, “Quality Education is Not Rocket Science.” Get pre-1950 textbooks, read the 1000...
The Tears I Laid Before His Shrine
St. Alexander The Catholic Gentleman continues its Lent preparation series with a post on prayer, which explains how to pray in five manageable steps. Fasting in a way that is pleasing to God is...
With the Seasoned Resignation of a Weary Veteran
St. Walburga His Excellency Bishop Donald Sanborn asks some serious questions of those who insist that he should fight the Modernists from within the Vatican II church. Interestingly, “Fr.” Carota, who celebrates the TLM...
We are an Unsteady People
St. Mathias The conflict between our feelings and reason is examined in a new book on Thomistic ethics, Living the Good Life, written by Steven J. Jensen. It is reviewed here by Christopher O....
All Francis Friday
We’re on vacation today but will resume publication on Monday. In the meantime, we invite you to listen to last night’s edition of Francis Watch, with guests His Excellency Bishop Daniel Dolan and Fr....
