Category: spirituality

“What is a Woman?” Mother Angelica Beautifully Answered This Question in 1997

Matt Walsh, Catholic author, and columnist, as well as host of the “Matt Walsh Show Podcast,” released a 2022 film asking the very question, “What is a Woman?” While the answer may seem completely obvious, it has stirred much controversy and debate. Within the last two years, people have taken to social media to express […]

The Art of Dress – A Survey of Principles

Above: The Parthenon by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1869) In 1925, professors of home economics Harriet and Vetta Goldstein published a textbook called Art in Every Day Life. The book and its three subsequent editions soon become a key reference for virtually all other textbooks on dress of the time and ended up influencing generations of […]

How a school in Rome hid Jewish boys from the Nazis

By Anita Hirschbeck (KNA) 80 years ago, the “brothers” saved his life in this place. Now Fausto Zabban sits on the stage of the school theatre at the Collegio San Giuseppe in Rome and tells the pupils his story. When the Nazis occupied the Italian capital, his Jewish family went into hiding, he explains. His […]

The Tomb of St Brendan the Navigator

Clonfert, Co. Galway, is the resting place of one of the most adventurous of Irish monks: St Brendan the Navigator. Stories of his seafaring inspired not only his contemporaries in Ireland, but later generations across medieval Europe too. Even in our time his story was a major influence on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and […]

Traditionalism is Not a Home

“Catholic Traditionalism” is a reaction to the crisis of the Catholic Church. How can anyone fail to understand this reaction, when almost every day we are subjected to evidence that tells us about the serious situation in which the Catholic Church finds herself? Yet for traditionalists, it is important that this movement avoids its own […]