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...
Category: Restoration Reader
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...
To Serve our Redeemer in the Most Fitting Way
Our Lady of the Rosary The interior has no clothes? This post on the Ad Imaginem Dei blog discusses the iconoclasm of the post-Vatican II era and tries to define why beauty in church...
Bringing on the Apocowlypse?
St. Bruno Michael Pollan points out all the problems with our industrialized food system in this interview, “The End of the World as We Know It”, with special emphasis on its dependence on petroleum-based...
Pesky Catholic Doctrines
St. Therese of Lisieux Crisis Magazine’s “Protecting God’s Word from Bible Christians,” by Richard Becker, provides an easy-to-digest overview of why the Catholic Church’s use of the deuterocanonical books is correct, and why Luther’s...
The Power and Importance of Tradition
Holy Guardian Angels Powerful. Boniface at Unam Sanctam Catholicam relates two tales that clearly impart the importance of tradition, even when the reasons behind it are lost. Here’s the perfect Restorationist project–something you can...
