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The Best in Catholic Blogging

Patron Saint of Compromised Financial Services - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Is There a Place for Modern Art in Our Churches? - David Clayton, New Liturgical Movement

Hope and Homosexuality - Leonard Klein, First Things/On the Square

Chastity and Building the Culture of Life - Brendan Dudley, HLI America

The Arab Spring’s Forgotten Freedom - Samuel Gregg, American Spectator

“There Is No Place for the Jew in Libya” - Shiraz Maher, Hudson New York

Are Character Strengths Enough? - Kevin Ryan, MercatorNet

Le Chiese Delle Cittá: Santa Maria in Monterone - Nathaniel Gotcher, VirtuousPla.net

What is so Special about the Interior Castle? - Catholic Spiritual Direction

Obama is Alienating Catholic Voters - Colleen Carroll Campbell, Catholic Lane

Why It’s Great to Be a Young Catholic - Marc Barnes, Crisis Magazine

The Church in Indonesia: Vibrant Witness to Christ’s Love - Vatican Radio

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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’.