What Sins lead to Spiritual Blindness? - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

Benedict XVI May Offer S.S.P.X. a Personal Ordinariate - Tancred, The Eponymous Flower

Confessions of a Former Contemporary Music Minister - April Yeager, Catholic Phoenix

Pope approves new ‘Blesseds’ from Spanish Civil War, French Revolution - Alan Holdren, Catholic News Agency

Faith-Based Filmmaking, Part One - Daniel McInerny, High Concepts

How Early can the Easter Vigil 2011 A.D. Begin? - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

The Influential Economist Who Tried to Change Birth Control Teaching - Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

A Standoff for Life? - Matthew Archbold, Creative...READ MORE

Anglicans Prepare for a Dive in the Dark - Mark Greaves, Catholic Herald

New Padre Pio Book: “He Invited Me to Partake of His Sorrows… - Francesco Castelli, Ignatius Insight

Walk in the Light - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Our Lady of Walsingham: 950th Anniversary - Jay Anderson, Pro Ecclesia

Dorothy Day: Comforter and Afflicter - Pat McNamara, Patheos

Time to Take Religious Freedom Seriously - Philip F. Lawler, Catholic World Report

The Joint Defense of Marriage and Democracy - Father Roger Landry, The Integrated Catholic Life™

“Same-Sex Marriage: Why Not?” - Tom Crowe, Catholic Vote

Fewer Children? Then Fewer Nuns… - Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

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PIERRE, S.D. — In a forceful indictment of the way abortions are done in South Dakota, the state has passed a law requiring women to consult with a pro-life pregnancy center before getting an abortion.

Based on testimony of women who now regret their abortions, the state Legislature found that “the overwhelming majority” of women arrange their abortions without seeing a doctor or receiving any counseling about side effects.

“Such practices are contrary to the best interests of the pregnant mother and her child,” the new law declares in its preamble.

Sioux Falls Bishop Paul Swain applauds the new law. “Anything we can do to ensure a fully informed decision, with the waiting period, the...READ MORE

Many Catholics Choose Homeschooling, Should You? - Theresa Thomas, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Keeping the Faith On the Job - CatholicExchange

Why Catholic Identity Does Actually Matter… - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Is a Free Market a Good Thing? - Thomas Storck, The Distributist Review

Lenten Musical Themes - Robert R. Reilly, InsideCatholic

On the Gifts of Aging, A Meditation on the Inverse Proportionality of Physical Aging and Spiritual Vigor - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

For All The Saints: Isidore of Seville - Allison Salerno, Why I Am Catholic

Father Smith’s Mutual Enrichment Recipe - Charles Culbreth, The Chant Café

Parents of Children.  Love...READ MORE

The Shroud of Turin: 3 Film Collector’s Edition - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

For Saint Bernard of Clairvaux’s Bible Reading Program to Make Sense of the World - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

The Most Holy Trinity as a Spring of Water, a Poem of Saint John of the Cross - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

Why Thirty-Three Is the Perfect Age… - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

A Lenten Funeral for a Passing Prayer - Jake Tawney, Roma locuta est

In Paris the Dispute Was about God, But about Man First - Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Christopher Hitchens has Mellowed, but His Idea of Christianity is Distorted - Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

Do I Really Believe? - Theresa...READ MORE

GENERATIONS OF PRIESTS

By Father Thomas McGovern

with a forward by Cardinal George Pell

Four Courts Press, 2010

456 pages, hardcover $60, sewn softcover $30

To order: FourCourtsPress.ie

This book is targeted toward priests and seminarians, aiming to invigorate them in their vocation to serve Christ and his Church. For all Catholics, however, it should inspire a vivid appreciation of that calling ever ancient, ever new.

Written by an Irish priest of the prelature of Opus Dei, Generations of Priests profiles 10 priests from antiquity through the present, from St. John Chrysostom to Pope John Paul II. Most are canonized and well known. All of them, however, “reflected Christ in his own...READ MORE

My Journey Home To The Catholic Church, Why I Am Converting - Bryan Kemper

To Break My Fast from Being Merciful - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

“Do Catholics Make Better Athletes?” - Pat McNamara

Three Biblical Reasons, Fasting, and Self-Denial - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

How to Really Solve Poverty in Africa - Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald

More Data on the Lost Generations and the Urgent Task for the Church - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Catholic Relief Services Doesn’t Distribute Bibles, Is that Good News? - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

Bad Taste, Poor Catechesis, and Vatican II - Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing

Anne...READ MORE

Roland Joffé, director of The Mission and There Be Dragons, calls himself an agnostic, but he seems to be a remarkably God-haunted one.

At a recent press event in Spain, the British writer-director reflected on what drew him to There Be Dragons — a film set during the Spanish Civil War that has predictably elicited media controversy for its positive treatment of St. Josemaria Escrivá, played by Charlie Cox, and Opus Dei, the personal prelature he founded. There Be Dragons recently opened in Spain; the film comes to the United States in May.

“I have no idea whether there’s a God or not, and it seemed to be a fascinating thing to think about,” Joffé explained to a roomful of sometimes skeptical...READ MORE