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Exchanging Rosary for Akathist: Perspective From Pope Benedict XVI – Prayer of Saint Ephrem

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What You Need to Know about Contemplative Prayer - Sr. Laus Gloriae OCD, Integrated Catholic Life™

Science And Religion – Foxfier, The American Catholic

Books: Two Altar Missals, a 17th Century Martyrology, etc. – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Proverbs 31: Woman of Action - Julie Robison, Ignitum Today

What is a Doctor of the Church? – Jean M. Heimann, Catholic Fire

Six Comments on Dante’s Punishment for the Self-Violent – H. H. Ambrose, Saint Peter's List

Quæritur: Priest Denied Me Absolution Because I’m Married to a Non-Christian – Fr. Z's Blog

Jesus of Nazareth, but Egypt First - Stephen Beale, Crisis Magazine

Catholics in Inner Mongolia Appeal for Prayers Amid Repression - Catholic Herald

The Contraception Contradiction - Daniel Allott, Catholic World Report

The Servant of God Bishop Theodore Romzha – Giampaolo Mattei, EWTN

Canada to Force Catholic Schools to Have "Gay" Clubs - Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews

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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’.