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Sacraments, Not Social Events – Msgr. Charles Pope, Community in Mission

How Do You Join the Ordinariate? – Deborah Gyapong, The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society

Horror Films & Holy Water: A Winning Formula – Sebastian James, Mercatornet

Explaining Transgender to Kids, Without Puppets – Leila Miller & Trent Horn, Catholic Answers Magazine

An Unexpected Journey? The Case for the Canonization of J.R.R. Tolkien – Matthew Chicoine, epicPew

Incredible Before-&-After Pics: Abandoned Medieval Church Restored – Zelda Caldwell, Aleteia

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

Monks of Tibhirine to be Beatified in Algeria in December – Catholic Herald

The Secret Catholic Chapel in the Attic of Reformation-era Amsterdam – Vittoria Traverso, Aleteia

Catholicism After 2018 – R.R. Reno, First Things

Why the Church Needs Philosophy: The 20th Anniversary of Fides et ratio – Joseph P. Trabbic, The Catholic World Report

Exposing the Modernist’s Mythology About Nordic Countries – Jonathan B. Coe, Crisis Magazine

A Sexual Ethic that Works for Women – Deborah Savage, First Things

New Law Links Pornography, Human Trafficking  – Susan Klemond, OSV Newsweekly

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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.