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How the Church Built Western Sacred Music – Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo CSJ, Catholic News Agency

On the Darkness – Sean Connolly, Ignitum Today

Trappist Nuns Will Not Abandon Their Monastery In Syria – Catherine Harmon, The CWR Blog

Being Catholic Isn’t an Excuse for Bad Writing – Edmund Mitchell, Catholic Stand

Solemn Requiem of Dom Philip Anderson, OSB in Melbourne – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Drive-By Theology - Paul McCusker, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction

The 2 Beasts in Revelation, What Do They Represent? – Taylor Marshall PhD, Canterbury Tales

Book Review: Imitating Mary – Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur, Catholic Lane

Life, Like Baseball, Demands Order - Donald DeMarco PhD, Crisis Magazine

Pope Francis on Same-Sex 'Marriage' and More - Big Pulpit

Benedict May Have Some Feline Company in the Vatican – John Thavis, Decoding the Vatican

Memoirs of a Nihilist, or What I Learned in College – Lorraine Murray, Integrated Catholic Life™

Their Martyr'd Blood – Matthew Cantirino, First Things/First Thoughts

Christians and Muslims, Living Together – Fr. Samir Khali Smair SJ, Ignatius Insight Scoop

On Kermit Gosnell & Facing Human Evil [Update] – Scott Alt, Logos & Muse

House of Horrors – The Road What is Adultery? – Fr. O, An Irish Ordinariate

The New Era of Religious Liberty – Gerald J. Russello, The Catholic Thing

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