Category: Restoration Reader

All Francis Friday

St. Albert the Great Put on your VII glasses.  Francis congratulates the FSSP on its anniversary, and we learn the true price for being “in communion” with the novus ordo church.  Catholic Family News...

Nourishing Tradition

St. Laurence O’Toole In today’s edition of Quidlibet, Fr. Anthony Cekada tells how his organ training allowed him to pass on to a youth at St. Gertrude’s, Andrew Richesson, the “tradition of improvisation stretching...

Serving the Master

Pope St. Nicholas I The faithful swineherd, waiting for his master to return, is a model for all Catholics.  John Cuddeback develops this theme in “Keeping Faith by Keeping Swine,” part 1 of a...

Aspiring to Style, Eschewing Fashion

St. Nilus Writing for Intercollegiate Review, Robert Reilly gives us a lesson in what it means to have style and how style is not fashion. Practicing Catholic hospitality on a budget?  Bon Appétit offers...

Immerse Yourself in Tradition

St. Martin of Tours “Advent is Coming!”  Finer Femininity discusses Advent traditions and urges readers to start planning now. TiA presents an excerpt from Msgr. Delassus’ work that explains how virtues and family traditions...

All Francis Friday: Nov. 8, 2013

“Deep abiding friendship.”  “Heartfelt and intuitive relationship.”  Ah!  The joys of ecumenism!  This National Catholic Register article details Francis’ warm and fuzzy relationship with the Jews and even has some interesting things to say...

News Roundup: Nov. 7, 2013

It all goes back to accepting him as he is.   The Wonderful World of Womanhood examines the differences between men and women and how those differences can affect a man’s willingness to make...

News Roundup: Nov. 6, 2013

Finer Femininity brings us another excerpt from Light and Peace, this time an excellent review of confession with several good quotes from St. Francis de Sales. “When Alaric the Visigoth sacked Rome in the...

News Roundup: Nov. 5, 2013

So you need to grow some food for your family but have limited space?  Good fences make good eating, according to Charlie Nardozzi in “Growing an Edible Hedge”, but don’t neglect some important non-edibles...

News Roundup: November 4, 2013

St. Charles Borromeo H. E. Bishop Daniel Dolan highlights some of the special qualities of St. Charles Borromeo in this 9-minute sermon. With the encouragement of Pope St. Pius X, a priest opened a...