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The Best in Catholic Blogging

It’s a Snow-Nun! - Kathy Schiffer, Seasons of Grace

The Nature of Forgiveness, Humanly Possible? - Dr. Donald DeMarco, Integrated Catholic Life™

The Tough Work of Virtue - Jake Frost, Catholic Lane

Thomas Aquinas, Proclus, and Dionysius - Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Like I Mean It - Ryan Kraeger, Ignitum Today

Catholic Beverages: Moored by Reason and Time - Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing

2011: the 1968 of the New Evangelization - Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

The Most Influential Catholic Of 2011, The Final Results - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

Peru: Vatican Mediation for “Rebel University” Fails - Andres Beltramo Alvarez, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

Is It Worth It? The Economics of Same-Sex Marriage - Douglas W. Allen, MercatorNet

Alan Colmes Mocks Santorum’s Pro-Life Views - Paul Zummo, The American Catholic

Santorum Explains To “Gay Rights” Activist Why U.S. Needs Traditional Marriage - Lisa Graas, Catholic Bandita

Quæritur: Why So Many Variations in Mass Depending on the Priest? - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

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Edward Reginald Frampton, “The Voyage of St. Brendan,” 1908, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.

Which Way Is Heaven?

J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystic west was inspired by the legendary voyage of St. Brendan, who sailed on a quest for a Paradise in the midst and mists of the ocean.