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Can Sports Help Us Grow in Holiness? – Robert Waruszewski, Ignitum Today

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Report: Mass Murder of Christians in Syria – John Couretas, Acton Institute/PowerBlog

Teen Sex: There’s An App For That – Paul Zummo, Catholic Stand

Easter Sequence: Sing It All Week Long – Kenneth J. Wolfe, Rorate Cæli

The Cross: Sign of God’s Life – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

Pics From Easter Vigil At Blackfen – Fr. Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

The Chaste Allure of Amish Romance Novels – Valerie Weaver-Zercher, First Things/On the Square

Solemn Vespers of Easter, London Oratory – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Jesuit University Theology Department Supports Sexual Deviancy – Tim Drake, Cardinal Newman Society/Catholic Education Daily

HuffPo Responds to New Shroud of Turin Study – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Dear Fundamentalist Atheist Bloggers: Don’t Troll on Me – Thomas L. McDonald, Patheos/God and the Machine

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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’.