What We Need
August 30th is the feast day of St. Rose of Lima, the first saint born of the Americas. Ad Imaginem Dei shares some beautiful art depicting the Patroness of Peru and of all America...
Tagged: Materialism
Materialism and 7th Discourse
Theodore Rebard writes for Crisis Magazine, The Origins of Modern Materialism , a revealing piece that traces today’s materialistic mentality back in time to the early fifteenth century, along with its relation to thinking...
God’s Spice and 1st Discourse
In King Lear’s Last Speech on Dappled Things the author, Michael Rennier, places some lines of Father Robert Southwell side by side with the poignant speech of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Considered together, the works...
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...
There is No Sheepfold Left
In this powerful Crisis essay, “Who Will Rescue the Lost Sheep of the Lonely Revolution,” Anthony Esolen speaks for the victims of Vatican II–the children of divorce, the abandoned spouses, the lonely youth who...
