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Icons, Icon Painters, & Praying With Sacred Icons – Deacon Paul O. Iacono, Fra Angelico Institute for the Sacred Arts

My Favorite Hapsburg Emperors - The Mad Monarchist

Children of Anonymous Sperm Donors Met with Hostility, Ridicule by Kathleen Gilbert of LifeSiteNews - Big Pulpit

Amid Media Meltdown, Vatican Goes Fox-Hunting – Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia

Edward Feser & Jonathan Sanford on Science & Faith – On the Side of the Angels, The Guild of Blessed Titus Brandsma

Media Provides Fig Leaf for Philly D.A. – Dave Pierre, The Media Report

Obsession for Photos at Liturgies: Liturgical & Pastoral Problems – Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Quæritur: Can the Newly Ordained Hear Confessions? Wherein Fr. Z Rants – Fr. Z’s Blog

Some Are More “Other” Than Others – Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

If Obamacare Overturned, Fortnight for Freedom Must Continue – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

Landscape with Flagons – Laurel Good

Sister Carol Keehan’s New Proposal Is Not the Right Fix – David L. Gray

“Do” is Not a Female Deer (Fortnight) – David L. Alexander, Man with Black Hat

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