Tagged: localism

The Great Leveling

Our Lady of the Snow In this Artsmash blog post, Tim Smith, the fine arts critic at The Baltimore Sun, draws a worrisome conclusion from listening to old recordings and comparing them to the way...

With a View to the Common Good

St. Silverius Writing for The Imaginative Conservative, Joseph Pearce clarifies the meaning of distributism by putting it in the context of the Catholic principle of subsidiarity.   He gives many helpful examples that should resonate...

Old Realities and New Possibilities

St. Christopher Magallanes and Companions John Cuddeback contemplates the distress of realizing the way of life that you desire is not only considered out of date but is actually being driven out in this...

The Emptiness of Big

St. Paul of the Cross The near and dear, the small and lovable:  Anthony Esolen praises little things in this FPR piece, “Something Better than a Giant”. From creation to the return to ashes,...

A Model to Be Imitated

Saint of the Day:  St. Perpetuus From Dirt to Shirt:  A t-shirt manufacturer focuses on supply chain transparency to win back American jobs from overseas.  TS Designs’ t-shirt labels feature a style number that...

To Market, to Market

St. Francis of Paula A new way of thinking of custody of the eyes?  Even adult shoppers place more trust in a cereal if they make eye contact with a character on the box. ...

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...

Silence Encourages the Tormentor

St. Joseph With “A Protest for Everybody” the French lead the way in fighting for the traditional understanding of marriage and protecting children from homosexual adoption.  Unlike the American Tea Party movement, the French...