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World Youth Day 2013, set for Rio de Janeiro - Gianni Valente, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

How Christians Become Atheists - Randy, Speaking the Truth in Love

Sexual Revolution: Built Upon Sand - Anthony Esolen, Public Discourse

A Mean Age For Youthful Sex - Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet

Resurgent Church Architecture - D Mac, Creative Minority Report

Movies, Beauty, Truth, and Swear Words - Tony Rossi, Patheos

Report:  Vatican Announces Plan For Another New Translation - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

Purgatory and Ghosts - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Revealing, Truth-Assaulting Sentence of the Day: End of Gender - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

The Natural Law - Doctor Jeff Mirus, CatholicCulture.org/On the Culture

Rosminian Sex Abuse Scandal: Shamed by BBC in Issuing Bad Apology - Damian Thompson, The Telegraph

Bishop Warns of “Impending Genocide in Sudan” - Catholic Lane

Planting Trees Instead of Going to Confession - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

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