From Atheist to Catholic - Jennifer Fulwiler, The Washington Post

From Beatification to Blogmeet: How the Church Communicates - Anna Arco, Catholic Herald

Roads to Rome: Molly Elliot Seawell (1860-1916 A.D.) - Pat McNamara, McNamara’s Blog

Can the Laity Expose the Blessed Sacrament? - Jimmy Akin, JimmyAkin.org

Catholicism: Not Ideology - George J. Marlin, The Catholic Thing

Turkish Government Aims to Destroy Oldest Christian Monastery in the World - Tancred, The Eponymous Flower

Bishop of Toowoomba Reveals Pope Benedict‘s Decisive Action - Father Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

Ding Dong, the Warlock’s Dead - John Zmirak, InsideCatholic

“Jesus Was Not a Conservative” -...READ MORE

‘And with Your Spirit’,The Big Difference in a little Phrase - Mike Aquilina, Our Sunday Visitor

iPads, images, and apps - Rich Leonardi, Ten Reasons

Insider News from the Vatican Blogmeet! - Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

The Other Rome Blognic - Father Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

Down the Memory Hole - Mark Shea, CatholicExchange

Restoring the Village - Anthony Esolen, First Things

Can Christ’s Glorified Body be in Locked Rooms and in the Eucharist? - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Arms and the Ordinariate - John Whitehead, Once I Was A Clever Boy

Spiritual Direction Is Not Wandering Around with a Spiritual Companion - Dan Burke, Catholic Spiritual Direction

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How the Sea Can Help You Pray - Doctor Peter Kreeft, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Black Elk: Lakota Holy Man, Catholic Catechist - Pat McNamara, Patheos/In Ages Past

Cardinal Bertone Offers Up More About the Third Secret of Fatima - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

U.S. Supreme Court Says Anti-Catholicism Is Okay - The Catholic Knight

Catholic Social Thought and the 2012 Election - George Weigel, First Things/On The Square

Gender-Confused Kids Need Parents Who Think Straight - Mary Rice Hasson, MercatorNet

Jesus’ “Brothers” - Howard Kainz, The Catholic Thing

The Latin Mass is Banned and Altars are Ripped Out. . . - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

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WASHINGTON — The term “just-war doctrine” never surfaced in President Obama’s announcement Sunday night that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden.

But his precise remarks underscored the U.S. government’s awareness that the world would scrutinize the killing of the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks from many different vantage points, including the just-war doctrine.

Introduced by St. Augustine of Hippo, this doctrine has traditionally provided the moral framework for guiding and evaluating “the just defense of a nation against an aggressor.”

It does not directly address the issue of individual or collective guilt of the aggressor, or how a just punishment should be established. The...READ MORE

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Diners were just beginning to arrive at Tuscaloosa’s Full Moon Bar-B-Que, when the restaurant’s manager, who had been keeping an eye on the path of the oncoming storms, hastily gathered four patrons and seven employees into the walk-in cooler. The 12 people huddled and prayed in a 3 x 10-foot area surrounded by shelves holding fruits and vegetables. At 5pm, the destructive force of a tornado blew the walls out of the restaurant, collapsing the roof on top of the debris. Three of the 12 people sustained broken bones and concussions, but all of them survived.

“They were protected by the hand of God,” said David Maluff, the Catholic co-owner with his brother Joe of the...READ MORE

Once in a Century: Remembering Blessed John Paul II - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput O.F.M. Cap., InsideCatholic

You Might Be Homeschooled If. . . - Mark P. Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!

Why (and How) Catholics Pray to Saints - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Catholic Hairstyles - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

American Papist Receives High Marks at the Vatican Blogmeet - Joshua Mercer, Catholic Vote

A May Poem From Fordham, 1904 A.D. - Pat McNamara, McNamara’s Blog

Going to the Vatican Blogmeet was Well Worth It! - A Reluctant Sinner

Minnesota: Bishop Paul Sirba Testifies for Defense of Marriage Amendment - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

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Margaret Budenz: From Communism to Catholicism - Kevin Schmiesing, InsideCatholic

Saints and Their Birth Order (Surprising) - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Shouts of Gladness? Or Silence? (on Osama bin Ladin’s Death)? - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Because Osama bin Ladin’s Compound is Near Saint Peter’s Church? - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

Blessed John Paul II Saved the Church from going the way of the Anglican Communion - Damian Thompson, Telegraph

Quaeritur: The Smoke of Satan - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

On Three Degrading Influences and How to Overcome Them - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

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VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz and Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone paid fitting tribute Monday to Blessed Pope John Paul II, a man whose life radiated Christ’s love, at a Mass of thanksgiving in St. Peter’s Square.

The beloved Pope’s remains will now occupy a visible place in St. Peter’s Basilica, under the altar of St. Sebastian next to Michelangelo’s Pietà.

For the second day in a row, a jubilant crowd thronged St. Peter’s Square, waving the flags of Poland (most of them, of course), Spain, Lithuania, the United States, Portugal and others. They wanted one more chance to say “Thank you.”

Estimated at around 60,000, the pilgrims reacted enthusiastically when Cardinal Dziwisz, the...READ MORE