Confident Abandonment into the Hands of God
St. Blaise “The Faults and Shortcomings of Others that Threaten to Rob Our Peace,” on Finer Femininity, is excerpted from a small book by Father Jacques Phillipe and is just the kind of spiritual...
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The Celestial Reality
Candlemas John Cuddeback brings to light the relationship between the philosophy of Aristotle and the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas in this short piece on Bacon from Acorns. I don’t think he would approve...
There’s a Movement in the Hearts of Men
St. Martina Was your hand made for a hoe? This Catholic Gentleman piece asserts that there’s a genuine Catholic land movement going on. “Keep Calm and Reproduce,” solemnly pronounces Lapham’s Quarterly in the title...
Humbly Submitting Yourself to Books
St. Francis de Sales Is the goal of higher education wisdom or efficiency? Intercollegiate Review’s essay, “What Kindle Readers Should Take from Plato,” encourages Kindle readers to flex their brain muscles, ignore the text search feature,...
A Dangerous, but Necessary Thing
St. Peter Nolasco “Praying for Humility” on Those Catholic Men, helps us understand the virtue of humility by using the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val’s Litany of Humility, and a prayer...
Total Immersion in the Word of God
St. John Chrysostom You’ve got to know the Word of God. That’s what St. John Chrysostom taught, as proven by the great quote in this Vultus Christi post, in which he refers to God’s...
It is Not Good for Man to Be Alone
St. Raymond of Pennafort Down with the nuclear family! Dr. Mitchell Kalpakjian argues that “nearness to extended family provides more opportunities for friendships, hospitality, conversation, practical advice, and acts of kindness and charity,” in...
Who Is in It for the Beauty?
St. Agnes What happens when most of civilization forgets that our purpose is to know, love, and serve God? Everything becomes focused on money, as explained in “Lost Dreams” on Resource Crisis. Pick a...
To Encounter the Transcendent
St. Marius & Comp., St. Canute, King A college student discusses the purpose of the arts from a Catholic point of view and how it is is met in two vastly different films, It’s...
A Cross Borne Simply
St. Paul, First Hermit This short essay on The Catholic Thing explains St. John Vianney’s “spirituality of suffering” in regard to the carrying of his cross. Fight materialism with gratitude using the three steps...
