Rachel O’Riordan returns to the show to describe nearly six years that she spent in a strictly enclosed Benedictine monastery. Drawing from her family’s everyday Catholic life she argues that vocations will recover only by homes that love Christ rather than adaptions to the modern world.

Rush Transcript Announcer: From the Housetops: Catholic spirituality, doctrine, history, apologetics, and current events. From the Housetops. Coming up next. Brother Matthew: Welcome to From the Housetops. I’m your host, Brother Matthew. For an accurate description of the decline of faith and morality we witness today, read Saint Paul’s epistle to the Romans, right there […]

Dan dusts off some old 45’s for a listen to the B-sides, noticing how God looks at the heart and often chooses “B-side” figures, because the world’s B-side may be the A-side of the Kingdom.

Tim talks about the importance of Truth Tellers in the history of the Church. And in the latest installment of Fairways to Faith, Tim uses alignment—how tour players set their body on a “railroad track” parallel to the target rather than pointing themselves at the hole—as a metaphor for the spiritual life: knowing the faith […]

Peter explores the non-optional doctrine of forgiving those who wrong you OR ELSE!

A rebroadcast of a famous clergy retreat in which Archbishop Fulton Sheen traces post-Vatican II confusion in Catholic spirituality to a failure to distinguish the world as the theater of redemption from the spirit of worldliness; the result, he says, was that retreats devolved into uncommitted discussions and the Church itself dropped Christ as its […]