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The Best in Catholic Blogging

Saint Etheldreda, Abbess - Mary Kochan, Catholic Lane

Getting Rid of Excess Baggage: Venial Sin - Randy Hain, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Archbishop Fulton Sheen on Four False Assumptions Made in Comparing Religions - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

On the Fearful Fruits of False Freedom - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

The Magisterium and Catholic Social Teaching - Father C. J. McCloskey III, Crisis Magazine

England’s Saints Have Been Written Out of History - Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald

Primetime TV, Not Your “Friends” - Doctor Stacy Trasancos, Accepting Abundance

Head of Vatican Bank: Debt Exacerbates Economic Decline in the West - Lisa Graas

Fisking Sculptor’s Defense of Three-Stooges-Looking Statue of JP2 - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

A Shameful Glory - Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

Impressive Forward Thinking Bishops - Father Simon Henry, Offerimus Tibi Domine

Medjugorje: 30 Years & the Faithful are Waiting on the Church’s Decision - Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

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Edward Reginald Frampton, “The Voyage of St. Brendan,” 1908, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.

Which Way Is Heaven?

J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystic west was inspired by the legendary voyage of St. Brendan, who sailed on a quest for a Paradise in the midst and mists of the ocean.