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The Best in Catholic Blogging

Coming to Know the Resurrected Jesus Christ - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Easter Sermon, 1876 A.D.: Father Algernon Al. Brown, C.S.P. (1848-1878 A.D.) - Pat McNamara, In Ages Past

Did Lambeth or Buckingham Palace Stop Reform of The Act of Settlement? - Damian Thompson, Telegraph

Same-Sex Attraction: Science and Philosophy - Philip Sutton, MercatorNet

Herod’s Temple in the Gospels: Scriptural Events - Stacy Trasancos, Accepting Abundance

Sola Scriptura Problems: Material Sufficiency of Scripture - Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

A John Paul II Beatification Catechism: Responding to the Skeptics & Critics - George Weigel

Civilization Killers: The Decline of Three Basic Cultural Indicators - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Dust Up in U.K. Over Anti-Catholic Legislation - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

480 New Priests in 2011, Five Year Trend: Younger (+more cool stats) - Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote/American Papist

If Christ Has Not Been Raised: The Case for the Resurrection - Mark P. Shea, InsideCatholic

This will be a continuing series from Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register.  This will be very similar to what you see on www.ThePulp.it.

Miniature from a 13th-century Passio Sancti Georgii (Verona).

St. George: A Saint to Slay Today's Dragons

COMMENTARY: Even though we don’t know what the historical George was really like, what we are left with nevertheless teaches us that divine grace can make us saints and that heroes are very much not dead or a thing of history.