Agony of Life
Alan Scott over at Grow in Virtue writes about picking up that cross and continuing on through hard times. Everyone goes through those stages when the “agony of life” drags you down, sometimes so...
Category: Restoration Reader
Prince of Darkness, Lady of Light
The Satan Club is appearing at more and more elementary schools throughout the United States courtesy of local Satanic Temples. No, this is not satire, but reality. Christopher Sandford at Chronicles provides the details...
“Or Kill an Old Lady in Finsbury Park.”
Lent: A Way of Looking Within and Beyond the Soul by Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian is a good read for mental preparation as we round the bend into the home stretch before Lent, the season...
False Martyrs
The horrible murder of Father Jacques Hamel at the hands of two Mohammedans last summer sent a shock through Europe and the Catholic world at large. Martyrdom or Chastisement? at Sodalitium Pianum explains why...
Ponder the Sorrows
“Toleration,” according to the Catholic Encyclopedia “in general signifies patient forbearance in the presence of an evil which one is unable or unwilling to prevent.” Sean Fitzpatrick’s article from Catholic Exchange, St. John Bosco and the Danger...
Death Shall be No More
John Horvat II makes some sobering observations in his article, The Earthquake That Destroyed More Than the Basilica of St. Benedict from Return to Order. “Over the last fifty years, the Benedictine order has...
Literature and Secret Pride
This week we begin with a bit of classic poetry: The Art of Manliness presents Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the post Manvotional: The Ladder of St. Augustine. “Standing on what too long we bore...
A Christmas Carol
On Saturday the 21st of January was celebrated the feast of one of the most well-known of Roman virgin martyrs, a heroine whose name swells the heart of every young Catholic girl with admiration...
Traditions of the Season
The Catholic Faith is amazingly rich and full, a virtual bottomless treasure chest of spiritual wealth. For converts and “cradle” Catholics alike, there is always something new to learn and explore, something to deepen...
Where All Men Are at Home
On Thursday the 22nd will be celebrated the feast of the United States’ one and only canonized saint. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini from Catholic Harbor of Faith and Morals gives a biographical sketch of...
