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Boom! The Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese Is Ordaining the Largest Class in Over 40 Years - Kevin Kilbane, News-Sentinel+++

Britain’s Next Catholic Prime Minister? - K.V. Turley, Crisis Magazine+++

Divine Providence (College)? Not So Much – One Mad Mom

On Debating Anti-Catholics – Karl Keating, KarlKeating.com

Saving Goldicott Convent — on Heritage Sites – Jean Elizabeth Seah, Ignitum Today

Bring Back the Times of Civil Discourse; C.P. Snow Revisited –  Robert Kurland Ph.D., The American Catholic

Against Lukewarmness: Fighting the Temptation of the Familiar – Catholic Exchange

A Monsignor’s Winning Recipe for Stewardship & Fundraising – Brice Sokolowski, CatholicFundraiser.net

Your Trendy Alternative to Sandals This Summer – Meghan Ashley Styling

Remembering Karl Marx, Prophet of Violence, & Terror – Samuel Gregg D.Phil., The Catholic World Report

The Powerful Prayer for Deliverance from Evil by St. John Paul II – ChurchPop

Check Out These Vintage Photos of Beloved Priest, St. John Bosco – Philip Kosloski, Aleteia

The Practice of Catholicism & Modern Identity – Fr. Justin M. Brophy O.P., Church Life Journal

Cardinal Hoyos, Former President of the Pontifical Commission of Ecclesia Dei – Rest In Peace – Fr. Z’s Blog

Bards of Pray, Why Are So Many Poets Catholic? – Mike Aquilina, Angelus News

The Relationship Between CS Lewis & Catholicism – The Coming Home Network

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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’.