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The Ancient Mass in “House Churches” Was Not as Informal as Many Think - Mark Rothe at Community in Mission +1 203

Evangelizing the Bayou: This Poor Friars Priest Canoes a Call to Church J.P. Mauro at Aleteia +1 120

Sexualizing Children: What We Can Learn From Muslim Parents Successfully Battling This in Britain  John Stonestreet at The Stream

3 Keys to Raising Your Child’s Interest in Learning  Nick Marmalejo at Seton Magazine

Men Inspiring Men: The Amazing Knights of Divine Mercy Schola Cantorum Fr. Richard Heilman at Roman Catholic Man

Prayers for Caroline Farrow Deborah Gyapong at The Anglican Coetibus Society

Moses & a Bible ‘Controversy’ Jimmy Akin at Catholic Answers Magazine

Cardinal Sarah: “The Church is Dying Because the Shepherds are Afraid of Speaking with Truth & Clarity,” Mark Lambert at De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

The French Classical Organ at Montreal Nicholas Capozzoli at Vox Humana

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series to be Set in the Second Age  Harley J. Sims at Mercatornet

Empty Spaces of a Church Brother Maximilian Maria Jaskowak, O.P., at Catholic Exchange

The Ambitious Life & Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Fr. Ted Hesburgh  Paul V. Mankowski at First Things

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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’.