True Restoration

Nine Bean Rows Will I Have There

Saints Felicity and Perpetua Can you dig it?  Nope.  Permaculture Magazine swears you can create a productive no-dig garden in one year. Southwest Michigan’s Second Wave takes readers on a tour of Nifty Hoops...

Make it Count

Ash Wednesday “Make your goal massive and unreasonable so that you freak out a little,”  advises Julien Smith in this blog post for Huffington Post, in which he recommends reading a book a week...

For We are Cleansed by Prayer

St. Casimir A Childlike Encounter with God:  Writing for NLM, Peter Kwasniewski outlines a method for implementing the practice of lectio divina,otherwise known as praying with the Scriptures, during Lent and hopefully beyond. “Fr.”...

This Sense of Longing

St. Katherine Drexel Should we be trying to spread democracy around the world when we’re not even happy with it ourselves?  Why are we Americans both “bored and uneasy?”  Mark Mitchell explores “The Homeless...

All Francis Friday

St. Romanus “Cardinal” Burke, beloved of conservative Catholics, is recruited to come to the defense of Francis in this lengthy article for L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO, which explains the message of this pontificate:  “The Holy Father,...

Like Looking Up at the Stars

St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows “Do not be played for chumps,”Anthony Esolen advises the school starters in this Crisis essay, “Quality Education is Not Rocket Science.”  Get pre-1950 textbooks, read the 1000...