True Restoration

Come, Happy December

Join Fr. Richard G. Cipolla in drawing the curtain closed on this liturgical year in this sermon for the last Sunday after Pentecost, brought to you by Rorate Caeli. In this Imaginative Conservative essay,...

New DVD

While I have gently tried to push most of our viewers into the world of streaming over the years we still do occasionally produce DVDs.  Our latest collects interviews with Bps Sanborn and Dolan,...

All Francis Friday

St. Albert the Great Put on your VII glasses.  Francis congratulates the FSSP on its anniversary, and we learn the true price for being “in communion” with the novus ordo church.  Catholic Family News...

Nourishing Tradition

St. Laurence O’Toole In today’s edition of Quidlibet, Fr. Anthony Cekada tells how his organ training allowed him to pass on to a youth at St. Gertrude’s, Andrew Richesson, the “tradition of improvisation stretching...

Serving the Master

Pope St. Nicholas I The faithful swineherd, waiting for his master to return, is a model for all Catholics.  John Cuddeback develops this theme in “Keeping Faith by Keeping Swine,” part 1 of a...

Requiem Aeternam

We were reminded today by one of our readers that today would have been Fr. Martin Stepanich’s 98th Birthday.  November 18th is the one-year anniversary of his passing.  In the month of the Holy...

Aspiring to Style, Eschewing Fashion

St. Nilus Writing for Intercollegiate Review, Robert Reilly gives us a lesson in what it means to have style and how style is not fashion. Practicing Catholic hospitality on a budget?  Bon Appétit offers...

Immerse Yourself in Tradition

St. Martin of Tours “Advent is Coming!”  Finer Femininity discusses Advent traditions and urges readers to start planning now. TiA presents an excerpt from Msgr. Delassus’ work that explains how virtues and family traditions...

Restoring Music

On my way back to Kansas City I’ve had a chance to pass a few days at St. Gertrude the Great in Ohio.  After High Mass on Sunday I had a chance to informally...