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The Reinvention of Parish Music – Jeffrey A. Tucker, Crisis Magazine

Pontificia Academia Latinitatis – Fr. Christopher Smith, The Chant Café

Book Review: The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand – Mary Hartwell, Integrated Catholic Life™

The Election in Two Images – DarwinCatholic, The American Catholic

Quo Vadis; O, U.S. Bishops? – Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing

The Tip of the Spear – Daniel Mikulsky, Ignitum Today

St. Elizabeth of Schonau on the Fate of Origen – Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

Did St. Thomas Aquinas Believe in Ghosts? – Br. John Maria Devaney OP, Dominicana

St. Josaphat: First Eastern Catholic Saint – Jean M. Heimann, Catholic Fire

Understanding Married Priesthood – Brian Fraga, OSV Newsweekly

Will the Catholic Church Be Unified? – Siblingless, Being Catholic. . .Really

Time For Full Communion Between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches – Deacon Keith Fournier, Catholic Online

If the Bishop’s were Executives, They’d Have Been . . . – Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

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