The Thinking Housewife draws upon the words of great American essayist Agnes Repplier in the post Arrested Childhood, which calls into question the wholesomeness and wisdom of showering children with gadgets and smothering them...
It finally dawned. The great day for which we had all been planning, and anxiously awaiting for so many months: the arrival of Bishop Sanborn! There were no Handel-style trumpet voluntaries; instead there was...
“The bishop sat in lordly state and purple cap sublime, And galvanised the old bush church at Confirmation time; And all the kids were mustered up from fifty miles around, With Sunday clothes, and...
Catholic Exchange shares Pope Saint Leo the Great on the Passion of the Lord, a sermon which will inspire proper preparation for Easter communion. The words of this great Pope are timeless. “And because...
In a post that emphasizes the beauty and fullness of the ancient Paschal traditions, Vultus Christi expounds on these practices and their meaning for both monastic and laypeople, neophytes and veterans. Days of Milk...
In Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother – The Family and the Cross, Finer Femininity shares a superb meditation for Holy Week from Joseph Breig. It eloquently illustrates the fact that we cannot comprehend Our...
Discontentment is rampant in modern society. Even the most devout amongst us fight against this expression of pride, battling the gnawing thought that we deserve better. It is, of course, a lie. In Right...
We often think of how blessed we are to have the modern conveniences that we enjoy every day: electricity brings light at the flip of a switch, washing machines and dishwashers nearly eliminate what...
Continuing on our Lenten journey, Finer Femininity has a wonderful excerpt from Maria Von Trapp’s “Around the Year With the Trapp Family” in a post entitled Laetare Sunday to Palm Sunday – Maria Von...
The responsibility of Catholic parents cannot be overstated. All too often, we allow things to become unnecessarily obscured by the minutiae of daily life; things which, when isolated, are actually quite simple and clear....
