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The Best in Catholic Blogging

Pope Saint John I, an Easter Pope & Foundation of Ecclesial Communion - Reginaldus, The New Theological Movement

Jesus’ Second Coming Vs. Oprah’s Last Show - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

Church Shopping - Elizabeth, Startling the Day

Untroubled Hearts (John 14:1-12) - Father John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Saint Venantius, Martyr - Catholic Lane

Sola Scriptura & the Authorship of the Gospels - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

How to Save Europe - The Catholic Knight

Why Pope ‘Removes’ Some Bishops, But Leaves Others In Place - Brian Fraga, Our Sunday Visitor

Clergy Abuse: Love the One You’re With? - Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

Do Women Have a Role in the Liturgy & in the Church? - Father Christopher Smith, The Chant Café

C.S. Lewis Talks About What is Wrong About Masturbation - Robert Colquhoun, Discover Happines

Bishops Consider Reinstating Some Holy Days - Anna Arco, Catholic Herald

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This will be a continuing series from Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register.  This will be very similar to what you see on www.ThePulp.it.

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’.