A Conversion Story, Catholics Make Better Athletes, Solving Poverty in Africa, and much more...

The Best in Catholic Blogging

My Journey Home To The Catholic Church, Why I Am Converting - Bryan Kemper

To Break My Fast from Being Merciful - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

“Do Catholics Make Better Athletes?” - Pat McNamara

Three Biblical Reasons, Fasting, and Self-Denial - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

How to Really Solve Poverty in Africa - Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald

More Data on the Lost Generations and the Urgent Task for the Church - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Catholic Relief Services Doesn’t Distribute Bibles, Is that Good News? - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

Bad Taste, Poor Catechesis, and Vatican II - Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing

Anne Rice likens Catholic Church to the Mafia - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

How to Pray the Stations of the Cross with Saint Alphonsus - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

Poor Misunderstood Marx! - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

This will be a continuing series, Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register by www.ThePulp.it.

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’.