Role of Homosexuality in Priest Sex Scandal; What Love Is and Is Not, Bible and Eucharist and More!

The ‘Third Rail’ of the Priestly Abuse Scandal: The Role of Homosexuality by Phil Lawler of Catholic Culture - Big Pulpit

The Bible and the Eucharist - Carl E. Olson, The CWR Blog

What Love Is and What Love Is Not - Laura Hensley, Epic Pew

Pope Francis: Children Need to See Their Mother and Father in Love – Catholic Herald Magazine

Matteo Ricci’s ‘Maxims’ and Friends: The Methods Us by a 16th-Century Jesuit to China Offer Lessons for Christians in Hostile Cultures by Father James V. Schall, SJ, of The Catholic World Report - Big Pulpit

New Film Sheds Light on Beauty, Truth of Marriage – Gabrielle Cubera, Catholic News Agency

How to Hold a Deathbed Vigil - Tammy Ruiz, Catholic Stand

Bach, Mozart, and a Brain Wave Illustration – Starck, Plato Theoria

When Your Spiritual Life Leaves You Traveling Up Hill (Both Ways) - Michele Chronister, Ignitum Today

A Jesuit School, Saint Louis University, Capitulates to Evil - Jack Kerwick, Crisis Magazine

Doublespeaque vs. Truth in Advertising: The NLRB Tightens the Noose – The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

Sacrosanctum Concilium’s Disappearing Footnotes - Matthew Hazell, New Liturgical Movement

African Bishops vs. German Bishops - Father John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

Polish Bishops Vow to Resist Change at Synod on the Family - Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic Herald Magazine

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