Category: Restoration Reader

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John Cuddeback contemplates the distress of realizing the way of life that you desire is not only considered out of date but is actually being driven out in this...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

St. Bernardine of Siena The natives in the novus ordo are getting restless.  Why do the NewChurch hierarchy dialogue with dissent?  Why do they prize unity over truth?  That’s the question The Muniment Room...

If There is Anything Worthy of Praise

St. Pudentiana Quoting Aristotle and St. Paul, this Nobility piece explains the role that aspiring after the good, the true, and the beautiful plays in creating a good society. History is repeating itself for...

All Francis Friday

St. Ubald Francis handpicked the secretary-general of the Italian Episcopal conference, “Bishop” Nunzio Galatino, and now this man has publicly insulted pro-lifers who pray in front of abortion clinics, as detailed here by The...

This was a Vendee Moment

St. Boniface Steve Skojec documents the great awakening–Catholics taking to the streets for Eucharistic processions and praying holy hours to protest the “black mass” at Harvard.  And it worked. Our Greatest Lie?  Unam Sanctam...

The Journey of Grief and Grace

Sts. Nereus, Achilleus, and Domitilla & Pancras The Catholic Gentleman enthusiastically reviews The Way and bills it as a “Manly Movie”.  The story is set on the ancient pilgrimage route,  Camino de Santiago. Paul...

All Francis Friday

St. Gregory Nazianzus Taking it to the peripheries?  Sandro Magister uses Pew Research survey results to show that Francis can’t use Germany’s “ideals” as the basis for changing Church teaching, not that Church teaching...

Of Kings and Crowns

St. Michael of the Apparition In this Nobility piece, a historian commissions and pays for a crown for King Richard III, whose bones were exhumed from under a parking lot in Leicester.  He was...