On Being African American and Catholic, Why Catholics Call Priests Father, Infertility, and more!

The Best in Catholic Blogging

On Being African American and Catholic - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Famous Papal Basilica Saved by a Welshman, Msgr. Dilwyn Lewis - Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

Why Do Catholics Call Priests “Father”? - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

The Lost Art of Enjoying People - Mitchell Kalpakgian, New Oxford Review

A Moral Approach to Infertility - Denise Hunnell MD, HLI America

Two Hearts as One: Our Journey to the Sacrament of Marriage - Joe Sales, VirtuousPla.net

It Really is All About being “Pro-Choice” - The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

Lost in Translation - Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing

All or Many? The Real Problem - Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

The Moral Obligation of Reality: Same-Sex Attraction - Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

Ireland: Closure of Embassy was an Act of Hostility - John Waters, Ilsussidiario

Fear is Silencing Christians in Pakistan - Catholic Herald

Unreason, Demagogues and the End of the West - Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

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Maya Hawke as American writer Flannery O'Connor in the 2024 film "Wildcat."

Jessica Hooten Wilson on 'Wildcats' /Father Dave Pivonka on Title IX (May 4)

Flannery O’Connor shares the big screen with some of her most memorable short story characters in the new indy film ‘Wildcat’. O’Connor scholar Jessica Hooten Wilson gives her take on the film and what animates the Catholic 20th century writer’s prophetic imagination.Then FUS University President Father David Pivonka explains why Franciscan University of Steubenville has pushed back against the Biden administrations’ new interpretation of Title IX, which redefines sex discrimination to include a student’s self- asserted ‘gender identity’.