Category: Restoration Reader

Creative Ways

St. Agnes Will you be relocating to be near the Mass?  Here’s an idea for finding a community-minded neighborhood.  Try to borrow a cup of sugar from neighbors.  The neighborhood Wen Lee grew up...

All Francis Friday

St. Anthony Abbot Yesterday, National Catholic Reporter reported that Francis, in his Thursday morning Mass, chastised priests, bishops, and lay Catholics who cause scandal, saying they do not have the “Word of God in...

If Life is Just a Random Chance, Then. . .

St. Marcellus Is an atheistic viewpoint sustainable?  Wintery Knight reports on what they really believe. Theodore Dalyrmple notices the attitude of the pro-death people in newspaper reports of two different elderly men in this...

Slaves Do Sometimes Rise Up

St. Hilary of Poitiers America the Failure.  Writing for Chronicles Magazine, Thomas Fleming exposes America’s descent into slavery and doesn’t see much hope of the South rising again.  Or any other region for that matter. ...

Making a Man

The Octave of the Epiphany How do you raise a boy to be a real man?  What role do men have in helping boys make the transition to manhood?  What is the role of...

All Francis Friday

Fifth Day within the Octave of the Epiphany Oh, yes.  The disgusting double standard in the Vatican II church glares defiantly at us in this Rorate piece on the supposed disciplining of the Legionaries...

Striving for the Supernatural

Fourth Day within the Octave of the Epiphany Matt Walsh’s “Neanderthal” view on monogamy is attacked via email by a college professor.  And Matt replies.  Beautifully. Writing for the CiRCE blog, Joshua Leland proposes...

Following the Magi

Second Day within the Octave of the Epiphany Bishop Sanborn fills in all the gaps you may have in your understanding of the Epiphany in this 22-minute sermon, which is brimful of interesting details...