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Philip Rivers is a Catholic
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Catholic NFL Player Jolts Journo Who Asks, “Are You Done Having Children?” - Ashley Jonkman, Aleteia+++

Is It Okay to Applaud at Mass? Here’s What Popes Have Said About It – ChurchPOP+

Tyrannies of Sodoclerical Self-Centered Euroweenies Effeminate Blather – Fr. Z’s Blog++

Adoration: The Most Perfect Prayer – Raoul Plus S.J., Catholic Exchange

Archbishop Ganswein, the Benedict Option, & the Anglican Ordinariates – Deborah Gyapong, The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society

Classical Music’s Divorce from God: Greatest Failures of Our Times – George Corbett Ph.D., Ignitum Today

What Mary Does for Priests – Charlie McKinney, Catholic Spiritual Direction

The Sex Scandals, Cover-ups, & Pope Francis - Big Pulpit

Just Friends: Bert & Ernie – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic

England’s Only Approved Marian Apparition Gives Us a Peek at Nazareth – Larry Peterson, Aleteia

Famed Aussie Atheist, Bill Hayden, Baptized into The Church at 85 – Fr. Matthew Schneider L.C., Through Catholic Lenses

Unique Features of the Ordinariate Liturgical Calendar – Tom B., tom’s digest

Pascal & Amoris Lætitia – Rick Yoder, The Amish Catholic

Thy Kingdom Come! – Carol Monaco, Catholic Stand

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Flannery O’Connor shares the big screen with some of her most memorable short story characters in the new indy film ‘Wildcat’. O’Connor scholar Jessica Hooten Wilson gives her take on the film and what animates the Catholic 20th century writer’s prophetic imagination.Then FUS University President Father David Pivonka explains why Franciscan University of Steubenville has pushed back against the Biden administrations’ new interpretation of Title IX, which redefines sex discrimination to include a student’s self- asserted ‘gender identity’.