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Thomas Aquinas College Earns Princeton Review’s Best Academic Rating - Cardinal Newman Society/Campus Notes

. . . Cal Catholic Daily: Princeton Review’s “Best of the West”: Thomas Aquinas College . . .

The Family-Centered Economy - Allan Carlson, MercatorNet

Is Facebook Pro-Life? “I’m Expecting” Status Added For Parents - Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote/American Papist

Witnessing your Faith at Work - Eric Sammons, Our Sunday Visitor

Evangelical Convert: Richard Maffeo - Why I’m Catholic

The First—and Last—‘European’? - George Weigel, First Things/On the Square

The Finding of St. Stephen’s Relics - Catholic Lane

Pope Recommends Summer Reading for Faithful - News.va/Vatican Radio

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US Bishops: HHS Must Think Catholics are Fools - Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSiteNews.com

. . . Kevin J. Jones: Scholars Blast Aggressive US Contraceptive Mandate . . .

. . . Our Sunday Visitor: A Clear Violation of Conscience Rights . . .

Religious Music vs. Sacred Music - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Just Sex - Melinda Selmys, Sexual Authenticity

Why Do We Doubt? - Father John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

A Day that Will Make History, World Youth Day - Antonio Pelayo, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

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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’.