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The Criminal Justice System & the Teaching of the Catechism - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Answering the Culture’s Objections to Heaven - Dr. Peter Kreeft, Integrated Catholic Life™

Whether St. John the Baptist is Elijah? - Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

The Greatest English Teacher - Terence Jeffrey, Crisis Magazine

Quæritur: How to get Gregorian Chant and a TLM in the Parish - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

My New Sunday Missal is the Christmas Present I Will Cherish Most - Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

The True Meaning of Christmas - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Mini Pompey Discovered in Vatican’s Back Yard - Giacomo Galeazzi, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

The Christmas Addresses of Pope Pius XII - Charles J. Gangi, New Oxford Review

Ethical Stem Cell Treatments Showing Most Promise - Rebecca Oas PhD, HLI America

Don’t Call Them Vegetables - Colleen Carroll Campbell, Catholic Lane

Welcome to Neo-Colonialism 101 - Nwachukwu Egbunike, MercatorNet

Dissident Theologians Demand Respect from Bishops: A 1-Way Street - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

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