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Not to become Attached to Pleasures by St. Benedict – Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

A Melkite Catholic Nun on What is Really Happening in Syria – Augustinus, Rorate Cæli

The Dignity of Work – Cheryl Dickow, Catholic Lane

Olympic TV Announcers Baffled by the Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Fr. Tim Finigan of the Hermeneutic of Continuity blog – Big ulpit

Bless Me Father, For I Have Sinned, I Used NFP – Kayla Peterson, Ignitum Today

Paul Ryan, St. Thomas Aquinas, & Ayn Rand – Big ulpit

Priest’s New Film Says Physics Help Prove Existence of God – Makena Clawson, Catholic News Agency

The “Gay Gene” & the New Eugenics – Wesley J. Smith, First Things/Secondhand Smoke

Confession, Humility, and the Witness of Penitence – Steve Skojec, Catholic Vote

Do Sports Build Character? – Justin Dyer, Public Discourse

Is the Catholic Church the Whore of Babylon? – Ship of St. Peter

Are All the Books of the Bible Historical? – Jimmy Akin, JimmyAkin.com

Could Pope, Russian Patriarch Meet in Finland? – Catholic Culture/Catholic World News

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