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How Should I Prepare for Advent? - Fr. John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Quæritur: Does Coffee Break the Eucharistic Fast? - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

That Ginormous Catholic Family Circus - Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

New Yorkers May Get to ‘Choose Life’ - Mary DeTurris Poust, OSV Daily Take

New Media and the 2011 Fall General Assembly - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

First American Saint - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

St. Joseph Pignatelli, Restorer of the Jesuits - Archbishop Terry, The Journey of a Bishop

Free Enterprise & the Church: Morality of Business & Work - Fr. John Flynn LC, Crisis Magazine

What Does it Mean to Fear the Lord? - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Dealing with Disappointment - Joseph Koss, VirtuousPla.net

Underpopulation: The Real Problem - Michael J. Miller, Catholic World Report

Immigrants, Legal & Illegal - Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing

Bishops’ Resignations Continue in Ireland - Giacomo Galeazzi, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

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