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News about the Instruction on Summorum Pontificum - Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

A Moribund Mass…: Modernism is a la carte - Nicholas Postgate Ph.D., The Latin Mass

Is Marriage About Civil Rights or Is It About What Is Best For Children? - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

The Vicious Circle of the Self-Perpetuating Crises of Belief & Worship - Carl Olson, Insight Scoop

Sight and Vision in Worship - Father Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

International Woman’s Day: Three Ways of Dying - Michael Cook, MercatorNet

Catholic Health Saints, Catholic Health Association - Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing

Shahbaz Bhatti’s Assassins Speak - Lisa Graas

Christianity the Reason for West’s Success, Say the Chinese - Tom O’Gorman, Iona Institute

A Strange Coexistence in Iraq - Brooke Anderson, Catholic News Service

The Sex-Abuse Crisis: More Revelations, More Misconceptions - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

Cath News Watch; Fighting the New Missal Again! - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

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China, Church and State: Easter in Beijing at Three Cathedrals

PHOTO ESSAY: A surreal balance exists between accepting state monitoring and confessing one’s faith without fear.

Demographic Trends, Financial Challenges Force Catholic College Closures

Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts has become one of 21 Catholic colleges across the country to shut its doors, merge with another...

Nagasaki’s Continuous Martyrdom: From the Hidden Church to the Atomic Bomb

‘After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall...