The Land Without a Sunday
The Blessedness of Labor from Finer Femininity by Rev. George Deshon addresses any complaints that particularly women who must work for a living might have, but there is advice that is pertinent to everyone,...
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Hopelessness, Suffering, Prayer
The accelerating and unrelenting parade of gadgets and technology with which the world is obsessed are most assuredly the biggest distraction mankind has ever seen. As the excerpt presented in Science and Hopelessness on...
Magnanimity
Lent is the perfect time to root out our hidden vices. Do You Have the Vice of Ambition? from Those Catholic Men discusses the excess of magnanimity as expounded by St. Thomas Aquinas. “…an...
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...
Asceticism, Peace, and Suffering
There is a world of difference between knowing about a thing and doing a thing, and there is no area in which this is more apparent than in the spiritual life. Sam Guzman on...
A Cross Borne Simply
St. Paul, First Hermit This short essay on The Catholic Thing explains St. John Vianney’s “spirituality of suffering” in regard to the carrying of his cross. Fight materialism with gratitude using the three steps...
Suffering Borne Nobly
Pope St. Gregory the Great Inspired Suffering, Classical style. Writing for Aleteia, John Cuddeback draws important lessons from Aeneas’ struggles. M. R. Zapp suggests five simple ways to Catholicize your parenting in this piece...
