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Does the Bible Condemn Repetitive Prayer? - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Rules of Etiquette Originate in the Church - Giacomo Galeazzi, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

How Saint Alphonsus Liguori Converted a Muslim - Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

The Golden Age of Islam, Not Really - Richard Butrick, Stonegate Institute

The Reception of Holy Communion - Fr. Simon Henry, StAR

Common Objections to Homeschooling: What About High School? - Melody Lyons, Catholic Lane

Don’t Judge Me! - Brent Stubbs, Ignitum Today

Gay “Marriage” Debunked: Men & Women have Complementary Natures- Susan Reibel Moore, MercatorNet

Doctor to Parents: Your Retarded Daughter Just Needs Killing - Mark Shea, Patheos/Catholic and Enjoying It!

Internat’l Planned Parenthood To Increase Africa Abortions by 82% - Lisa Correnti, Turtle Bay and Beyond

A Thoroughly Watered Down Text in the RNAB - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

The Lemon Test Strikes Again! - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Why do Saturday Evening Masses Count for Sunday? - Anthony S. Layne, The Impractical Catholic

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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’.