True Restoration

Tossing a Lace Doily at a Tank

St. John of Damascus “Wearisome are the displays of what passes for happiness in a dead world,” laments Anthony Esolen in this essay for The Catholic Thing, “A Time to Tear Down, A Time...

Picture This

St. Ludger Sumptuous color photos of pre-Bolshevik Revolution Russia depict glorious landscapes and an incredible diversity of people in this splashy Smithsonian piece by Natasha Geiling. An intriguing story of ancient grains, community, entrepreneurship,...

Behold the Handmaid of the Lord

The Annunciation The importance of March 25 in salvation history is woven into this piece on the Dominicana blog, that notes J.R.R. Tokien’s use of this date for the destruction of the ring and...

A Trembling in Her Womb

St. Gabriel Vultus Christi lovingly tells the story of the Annunciation, explaining the Marian symbolism in art, and tying this great solemnity to the anniversary of the first exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. In...