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Ecumenism 101 with Peter Kreeft - Kate Poortenga, Acton Institute Blog+++

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“Gay Rights” Campaign Uses the FBI to Harass Their Critics – Austin Ruse

The Unobserved Anti-Christian Bias – Robert Royal Ph.D., The Catholic Thing

Your Fundraising Mid-Year Review – Brice Sokolowski, Catholic Fundraiser

4 Tennis Players Whose Faith has Helped Make Them Champions – Cerith Gardiner, Aleteia

5 Things to Stop Saying When You’re Out Shopping – Meghan Ashley Styling

Terrorism, Restlessness, & Bastille Day – Jerry Salyer, The Catholic World Report

Recent First Masses & (Ordinariate) Ordinations – Gregory DiPippo, New Liturgical Movement

Bishop Joseph Perry: Youth Hunger for Mystery & Liturgy; Need Tradition & History – Nicholas LaBanca, The Catholic World Report

Politicizing God – Regis Nicoll, Crisis Magazine

Never Forget the Martyrs Who Died for the Church in China – Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith Ph.D., Catholic Herald

Iraqi Refugees in France are Helping to Revive a Marian Apparition Site – Bénédicte de Saint-Germain, Aleteia

The Vatican to Draft Guidelines on Proper Use for Redundant Churches – Carol Glatz, Catholic Herald

Important News from the FSSP – Gregory DiPippo, New Liturgical Movement

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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.