Annulment Nation, America - Jeff Ziegler, Catholic World Report

Lent and the Religion of Humanity - Father James V. Schall S.J., The Catholic Thing

Libya and Just War - Michael Denton, The American Catholic

New Auxiliary Bishops for Detroit! - Diane M. Korzeniewski O.C.D.S., Te Deum Laudumus!

Lent: the Silly Season in Some Places - Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Australian Bishops Warn About New South Wales Greens’ Political Positions - EWTN News

Treehuggers No More: Australia’s Radical Green Party - Michael Cook, MercatorNet

Battle in the Desert - Doctor Edward Sri, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Ontological Splendor: Flannery O’Connor in the Protestant South - Glenn C. Arbery,...READ MORE

Friendship That Lasts - Not a Minx a Moron or a Parasite

On the Evangelization of the Jewish People, The Surprising View of the Pope - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Psalm 6/2, God’s Anger and Rebuke - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Hillsdating and Other False Realities - Julie Robison, The Corner With A View

Christian Commitophobia - Elizabeth, Startling the Day

Ray Flynn: A Real Pro-Life Catholic Democrat - Deal W. Hudson, InsideCatholic

From Columbus to Cabrini: America’s Italian Catholics - Pat McNamara, Patheos

Homosexuality Obsession?  Whose? - Robert P. George, Mirror of Justice

Four Myths about the Crusades - Paul F. Crawford, Intercollegiate Review

VATICAN CITY —  Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his concerns over the military campaign in Libya, a sentiment echoed by some Vatican officials who reportedly fear the conflict may turn into a protracted war with civilian casualties.

Speaking to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square March 20 for the recitation of the Angelus, the Pope appealed “to those who have political and military responsibilities to concern themselves above all with the safety and well-being of the citizens, guaranteeing access to humanitarian aid.”

Allied forces, made up mainly of U.S., British and French military, began a series of strikes against Libya’s air defenses March 19 as part of a United...READ MORE

An Honest and Charitable Atheist-Catholic Dialogue - Mark P. Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!

Homeschool Socialization vs. the ‘Girls Are Dumb’ Variety - Doctor Paul Kengor, CatholicExchange

Contraception One Reason for Catholic Flight from Confession - Russell Shaw, OSV Daily Take

Why Don’t We Have More Novus Ordo Masses in Latin? - Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

...Father John Zuhlsdorf comments here...

Why Does God Allow Tsunamis and Massacres? - Peter S. Williamson, Speaking of Scripture

Pastor Terry Jones Burns a Qur’an: What is Catholic Teaching on This? - Lisa Graas

More Than a Monologue? - Father Robert J. Araujo S.J., Mirror of Justice

...Robert P. George comments here......READ MORE

If This is Fasting, Bring on Almsgiving! - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

UK: The Cabinet of Deceit, Hidden Tabernacle During Persecution - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Two Processions in God - Stacy Trasancos, Accepting Abundance

US: Archbishop Timothy Dolan Wins 60 Minutes - Tom Crowe, Catholic Vote

Pope Benedict Consecrates New Church in “Little Hell” - Tancred, The Eponymous Flower

The Miracle of the Sun Symbolizes the Mysteries of the Rosary - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

If God is All Powerful Then How Are We Free & Why is There Evil? - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington DC

Choose Your Measure Carefully - Father Philip Neri Powell O.P. Ph.D.,...READ MORE

BUCHAREST, Romania — Persecution comes in so many varieties.

In Bucharest, the capital of Romania, a tenacious archbishop has led a five-year struggle against a Goliath next door — a 19-story skyscraper, with four underground levels, being constructed about 25 feet from the Cathedral of St. Joseph.

The cathedral is the region’s Catholic spiritual center, besides being the seat of the archdiocese. When Pope John Paul II visited Romania in 1999, his first visit to a majority Orthodox country, he said Mass at St. Joseph’s.

Even winning stop-work orders from local courts and gaining support from the European Parliament, the Romanian Senate and the Vatican haven’t been enough: This ominous...READ MORE

The True Impoverishment of Man: On Benedict XVI & Bishops - Father James V. Schall S.J., Ignatius Insight

G.E.M. Anscombe, Inspiration for JP2 & Benedict XVI - Stephanie A. Mann, Supremacy and Survival

Brooklyn’s Jesuit College (1908-1921 Anno Domini) - Pat McNamara

Homeschoolers’ Success Silences the Critics - Patti Maguire Armstrong, CatholicExchange

What We Can Learn from the Decline of the Ottoman Empire - Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald

Bright Maidens: What Feminism Should Have Produced But Couldn’t - Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism - Rich Leonardi, Ten Reasons

She “Even Had Led Religious-Education Classes”? - Lisa Graas

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St. Joseph is so quiet, so humble — and often so forgotten. But, while instituting a new feast for him in 1955, Pius XII advised, “Thus, if you wish to be close to Christ, we again today repeat, ‘Go to Joseph!’”

The Pope echoed what God prefigured way back in Genesis (41:55, 57) with the patriarch when “Pharaoh directed all the Egyptians to go to Joseph and do whatever he told them. ... In fact, all the world came to Joseph to obtain rations of grain.”

Devotion to St. Joseph was rare in the early Church but increased by the Middle Ages. The Holy Fathers from Leo XIII to Pope Benedict XVI have repeatedly called our attention to Jesus’ earthly father.

What better time to answer the call...READ MORE