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St. Peter’s Square Will Return to the Seventeenth Century - Giacomo Galeazzi, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

Quæritur: Is Gambling A Sin? - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

The Christian University - Francis J. Beckwith, The Catholic Thing

The Crown of Poland - John Whitehead, Once I Was A Clever Boy

About That PR Thing - Colin Gormley, VirtuousPla.net

The Folly of Federal ‘Safe Sex’ Campaigns - Bernard Toutounji, Crisis Magazine

Mothers of Gardasil-Injured Girls Issue Challenge to Doctors - Susan Brinkmann, Women of Grace

HHS Birth Control Mandate Planners Tied to NARAL & Planned Parenthood - Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSiteNews.com

Teacher Disciplines Students Who Say Bless You - Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Overpopulated of Olderpopulated? - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

In Defense of Capital Punishment - Edward Feser, Public Discourse

The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Eucharistic Theology in the Early Church - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

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