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British Pilgrims Get Ready for World Youth Day - Catholic Herald

Catholicism, Apps and New Media - Elizabeth Scalia, Patheos/The Anchoress

About Spiritual Motherhood - Sister Lisa Marie Doty F.D.C.C., Nunspeak

June: Month of Sacred Heart of Jesus, Saint Claude de la Colombière - Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

Collateral Damage: Accusing Innocent Priests - Boston Catholic Insider

The Pantheon - The Mad Monarchist

The Beatitudes from the Gospel According to Luke, Tertia Pars - Jake Tawney

Catholic University of America Trusts Its Students - Patrick J. Reilly, Crisis Magazine

Challenges for the Caritas Network - Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing

An Evangelical Disproves Evangelicalism - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

. . .milk & meat: what we can learn from evangelicalism & vice versa. . .

The Wrong Sort of CCD: Catholic Cognitive Dissonance - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

The Persecution of the Knights Templar - Nick Squires, The Telegraph

. . .Knights Templar heirs demand apology from Vatican. . .

. . .three most famous chivalric orders. . .

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Miniature from a 13th-century Passio Sancti Georgii (Verona).

St. George: A Saint to Slay Today's Dragons

COMMENTARY: Even though we don’t know what the historical George was really like, what we are left with nevertheless teaches us that divine grace can make us saints and that heroes are very much not dead or a thing of history.