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The Massacre at Duffy’s Cut, Anti-Catholicism in 1832 America from the Look in the Mirror blogBig Pulpit

First, Prepare for Advent – Aged Parent, The Eye-Witness

Poverty of Spirit – Mary C. Tillotson, Ignitum Today

Are Catholics Supposed to Abstain from Meat Every Friday? – Cathy Caridi JCL, Canon Law Made Easy

Two Kings, Two Kingdoms (John 18:28-40) - Fr. John Bartunek, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction

Pro-life is a ‘Social Justice’ Issue, Says New San Francisco Archbishop – Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews

The Gorgeous Music of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church – Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

Requiem for an Ambrosian – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Christopher Kaczor on Myths about the Church, Galileo, More by Carl E. Olson of the Ignatius Insight Scoop blogBig Pulpit

Religious Institutions, Civil Society, and Secularism’s Disguised Burden – Francis J. Beckwith, The Catholic Thing

Lincoln, a Movie Review – Donald McClarey, The American Catholic

Bourgeois Mentality – New Catholic, Rorate Cæli

Keeping the Youth, From a Youth’s Perspective – The Byzantine Bandit, Wake Up and Smell the Incense

Fr. Peter Galadza: Optional Celibacy in Eastern Catholic Church – 'St. Elias. . . Today'

Eugenics, Voluntary and Otherwise – Anna Williams, First Things/First Thoughts

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