A Catholic Blueprint for Change – Review of Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture by Dr. Anthony Esolen. Regnery Publishing, 2017 Within the past few weeks, I have had three encounters with Dr. Anthony Esolen. The first was Reconquest … Continue reading
Category: Catholic Living
Listen to Reconquest for Free
It is possible to listen to Reconquest for free if you click here to listen to a low bandwidth version when the show is on. New shows premiere every Wednesday night at 8:00 EST. For other Reconquest time slots, see the … Continue reading
Open Letters to Catholic Graduates
[Note: This book is now available for pre-order from Rafka Press. Their Website with ad for the book is http://rafkapress.com/open-letters-to-catholic-graduates.html If you wish to give this book to a high schooler now graduating, remember that the book can be given … Continue reading
Wegmans Food Markets, If You Are Near One Shop There
National Catholic Register, Peter Jesserer Smith: “Never think about yourself; always help others.” The motto of the late Robert “Bob” Wegman, who pioneered the Wegmans Food Markets founded by his father and uncle, hangs up with his portrait in his … Continue reading
It’s About Time! Kansas City Diocese Cuts Off Girl Scouts
I had thought that the USCCB had forbidden Girl Scout activity in parishes decades ago. Apparently not. And what about the Boy Scouts of America? They’ve been corrupted as well. Well, I just read here that in the Denver Diocese … Continue reading
We Are Called to Be ‘Confessors’: Cardinal Pie
Good article here by Michael Matt, The Remnant. It is based on Romans 10:10 “for with the heart we believe unto justice; but, with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.” Cardinal Pie: Is God too proud when he acknowledges … Continue reading
Bavarian Catholic Village for the Homeless Still Giving Shelter After 500 Years
And, there’s a Latin Mass offered there every day. Regina, Beverly Stevens: Most people today have no idea that the Catholic Church was the first Western institution to provide hospitals and housing for the poor.(For an example of a medieval … Continue reading
In France the Faith Will Not Be Extinguished
The Imaginative Conservative, Joseph Pearce; In a recent essay, “Is the West Lost Forever?,” I wrote the following: What will be left when the secularist ‘West’ is dead will be the Permanent Things. Christianity is alive and well, and thriving … Continue reading
The Incarnation and Grace
In 1980, just after I had met him for the first time, Father John Hardon, S.J. said something to me privately that also became more and more important in my own later life, especially in my growing understanding of our … Continue reading
Our Lady Brings a Moslem Family Into the Church
A Coming Home Network, David Shawkan: My name is David, and I am the Lazarus of that Gospel passage. I was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979 to a Muslim family of nine — six boys and three girls. I … Continue reading
Getting Rid of Rotten Fruit
Question: What do Death Comes for the Archbishop, Ode to Joy and The Night Watch have in common? Answer: 1) They are all works of art. 2) They can all be identified by a person of culture who will also … Continue reading
Nobility of Manners and External Signs of Respect for Authority
TFP, John Horvat II: I recently received an e-mail from someone who questioned me on a comment I made about manners. I had said that manners presuppose distinctions. They call upon us to honor those who are excellent with special treatment. … Continue reading