A Profundity and a Sorrow
St. Jerome Saints are tough, not soft and sweet playbabies. Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveira makes this point using two pictures of St. Therese and one of the Holy Shroud of Turin, in this...
Category: Restoration Reader
In Great Need of Angelic Assistance
Dedication of St. Michael Have we forgotten the presence of the angels? “Dom” Mark Kirby, OSB, shares his Italian ancestors’ stories in relation to the angels and especially St. Michael in today’s post on...
Where the Feeble Senses Fail
St. Isaac Jogues and Jean de Brebouf Those public acts of faith are so powerful. The Dauphin models respect and reverence for the Blessed Sacrament in this short Nobility story, “The Dauphin Kneels for...
By Some Miracle of God’s Providence
Writing for NLM, Gregory Dipippo shares the powerful story of “Blessed Herman, the Cripple”. Today he most likely would have been an abortion statistic, but just look at the amazing things he accomplished and...
The Windows Whisper the Story of Salvation
Our Lady of Ransom A Catholic art historian takes us on a grand tour of the Lorin stained glass windows in St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church in New York City, in this lengthy but...
The Characteristic Lie of Our Age
St. Linus Is our freedom in denying ourselves or giving in? Rod Dreher explores this question in the context of a story of a bisexual man in “I Want, Therefore I Am,” for The...
The Moment of Triumph was the Moment of Disaster
St. Thomas of Villanova In “The Ironic Outcome of the Benedictine-Jesuit Controversy,” Peter Kwasniewski at NLM wonders whether Bugnini turned an apparent Jesuit loss into triumph with the promulgation of the novus ordo. You...
The Consequences of a Darkened Intellect
St. Januarius Using many examples from St. Augustine, Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian shows how we can fall into what he describes as “fornication of the mind”, in this essay for Truth and Charity Forum, “The...
Our Life, Our Sweetness, and Our Hope
St. Joseph Cupertino This short TIA essay encourages the singing of the Salve Regina at the end of the family rosary. A link near the end will take you to a page with the...
A Prophetic Witness of Joyful Life, Fidelity, and Love
Stigmata of St. Francis The wedding vows sound easy, but sometimes husbands need a checklist to which they can refer on a daily basis. The Catholic Gentlemen provides an excellent one in today’s post,...
