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Have an Old Fashioned, Blessed, Wonderful Christmas – Teresa A. Thomas, Integrated Catholic Life™

What Makes a Great Parish? – Fr. Gerald E. Murray J.C.D., First Things

I Love You, Man – Benedictine Augustine, Maccabee Society

The Irish Forest That Secretly Grew a Celtic Cross – Catholic News Agency

Ireland’s Happy Pro-Life Warriors – Cora Sherlock, Catholic Herald

My Brown Scapular and Me – Mattias A. Caro, Ethika Politika

It’s Time to Rehabilitate St. Aloysius – Thomas J. Craughwell, The Standard Bearers via Crisis Magazine

Not Alone: At the House of Mary Near Ephesus – Cristina Montes, Ignitum Today

Father Stanley Rother: The First American-Born Martyr – Catholic News Agency

New Mass, Old Mass: Savor the Fullness – James Hooper, Catholic Stand

Young Catholics Campaign for a London World Youth Day – Filip Mazurczak, The Catholic World Report

Bishop Peter Elliott of Melbourne, Australia, on Liturgy, Rigidity, and Reform of the Reform – CWR Staff, The Dispatch via The Catholic World Report

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Maya Hawke as American writer Flannery O'Connor in the 2024 film "Wildcat."

Jessica Hooten Wilson on 'Wildcats' /Father Dave Pivonka on Title IX (May 4)

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’.