An Introduction to Distributism, Part II - Donald P. Goodman III, The Distributist Review

St. Ignatius of Antioch & the Early Church - Kenneth D. Whitehead, Ignatius Insight Scoop

On the Authority of Bishops, from St. Ignatius of Antioch - Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

Liberty, Technology, & the Advent of Social Networking - Gladden J. Pappin, First Principles

“The Might Macs”: Basketball and the Power of Faith - Brandon Vogt, The Thin Veil

Hope - Anna Williams, VirtuousPla.net

Ten Public Policies for Renewing Family Life - Phillip Longman, MercatorNet

Wm. Henry Bissell, First Catholic Governor of Illinois - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

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Last March a bishop who had not yet reached his 41st birthday was appointed head of the largest Eastern-rite Church in communion with Rome. Only recently appointed a bishop to serve the South American Ukrainian Catholic faithful, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, was elected major archbishop of Kiev-Halychna, thus taking the helm of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, who had already served three years past normal retirement age.

With some 10 million faithful worldwide, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church holds a unique position within the Catholic Church. It bridges Eastern and Western Christianity, tracing its roots to the Church in Kiev, which broke with Rome during the...READ MORE

NASHVILLE — The 40 Days for Life’s fall campaign in the Diocese of Nashville got a rocking boost on Sept. 24 with a festival of music that garnered support and commitment from a youthful audience. Produced and promoted by Mysterium Records, the live concert of eight Catholic musicians and rock bands was recorded for a CD that will help promote 40 Days for Life. (The CD will be released by Mysterium Records and made available to LifeTeen and through Ignatius Press.)

Jimmy Mitchell, 25, president of Mysterium Records and producer of the Love Come Alive Festival, was inspired to get more deeply involved in the pro-life movement because of 40 Days for Life.

He was also moved by reading Abby...READ MORE

VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News)—Pope XVI Benedict says the Church’s Year of Faith, starting October 2012, which he announced yesterday, Oct. 16, comes in response to a “profound crisis of faith that has affected many people” and left them searching for answers.

“Ever since the start of my ministry as Successor of Peter, I have spoken of the need to rediscover the journey of faith so as to shed ever clearer light on the joy and renewed enthusiasm of the encounter with Christ,” the Pope wrote in his letter, Porta Fidei (Door of Faith), announcing the yearlong initiative, which was released Oct. 17.

“The ‘door of faith’ is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and...READ MORE

WASHINGTON — The federal government’s decision to end funding for a Church program for trafficking victims has fueled concerns that “abortion politics” are at work.

“There seems to be a new unwritten reg at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It’s the ‘ABC Rule’: anybody but Catholics,” asserted Sister Mary Ann Walsh, the spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which established an ambitious range of services for trafficking victims in 2006.

The HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement and the American Civil Liberties Union have stressed that trafficking victims need access to the full range of “family planning” services, which the USCCB program won’t...READ MORE

The Essential Qualities of Prayer - Dc. Mike Bickerstaff, Integrated Catholic Life™

The Great Siege of Malta of 1565 & The Knights of Malta - Tribunus, Roman Christendom

Maria Pierina de Micheli & The Holy Face of Jesus Devotion - Mystics of the Church

Feeling Clean - Joe Sales, VirtuousPla.net

“Christians are Free People, That is Why They Hate Us” - Mauro Pianta, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

The Intriguing Saint Thomas More - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Infamous Anonymous Abortion Practitioner Exposed: Nicola Moore - Cheryl Sullenger, LifeNews.com

B16 Believes Secularized Nations can turn Christian Again - David Kerr, Catholic News Agency

Decline and Fall - Anthony...READ MORE

CHICAGO — Courage, a Church apostolate ministering to people with same-sex attraction, held its 23rd annual conference this summer in Chicago. Members of Courage and EnCourage, the support group for their loved ones, were joined by Church leaders, including Cardinal Raymond Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura at the Vatican, the Holy See’s highest court; Father Benedict Groeschel of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, who helped to found Courage in 1981; and Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, a psychiatrist with extensive experience counseling people with same-sex attraction.

Register correspondent Matthew A. Rarey covered the conference, which featured daily Masses...READ MORE

VATICAN CITY (EWTN News/CNA)—Pope Benedict XVI has declared a “Year of Faith,” which will begin in October 2012, the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.

“It will be a moment of grace and commitment to a more complete conversion to God, to strengthen our faith in him and proclaim him with joy to the people of our time,” said the Pope, making his announcement during Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica.

The Year of Faith will run from Oct. 11, 2012, until Nov. 24, 2013, which is the Solemnity of Christ the King.

The Pope said in his Oct. 16 remarks that it will give “new impetus to the mission of the whole Church to lead men out of the desert in which they often...READ MORE