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The Best in Catholic Blogging

Legislating the Constitution Down - Elizabeth Scalia, First Things/On the Square

An Intimate Reflection on Homosexuality & Catholicism - Melinda Selmys, The American Catholic

Tim Tebow and Christophobia - George Weigel, Archdiocese of Denver

Stand By Your Man - Julie Robison, VirtuousPla.net

What Does it Mean that the Gates of Hell Won’t Prevail? - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Amanda Knox, Catholic? - Tom Hoopes, Catholic Vote

In Her Footsteps: Meet Dorothy Day’s Granddaughter - Deacon Greg Kandra, The Deacon’s Bench

SSPX Leader Gives Cool Reaction to Vatican Peace Offering - David Kerr, Catholic News Agency

B16 Determined to Stop Syncretism Personally at Assisi - Fr. Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

L’Osservatore Romano Criticizes BBC for Erasing “All Traces of Christianity” - Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

The Fleshy Nails in the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Vargas Llosa with “God in Madrid” - Fr. James V. Schall SJ, The Catholic Thing

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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.