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The Best in Catholic Blogging

A Fatherly Figure - Robert Royal, Catholic World Report

For the Work of On-Going Personal Conversion (Part I) - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

Pope: Healthy Secularism in a Society is When Life & Family is Made Important - Giacomo Galeazzi, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

Swiss Initiative to Defund Abortion Gains 111,000 Signatures - Thaddeus Baklinski, LifeSiteNews.com

Los Angeles’s Shrines to the Virgen de Guadalupe - Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times

Why So Many Atheists are on the CNN Belief Blog - Father Robert Barron, The Integrated Catholic Life™

The Great Scientology Implosion: Author Details Church on the Decline - Ruth Davis Konigsberg, Time Magazine

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