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Stop Blaming the Bishops by a Catholic in Brooklyn – Big Pulpit

Mascara, Paul Ryan and Me – Cheryl Dickow, Catholic Lane

How Do You Help Someone Who Suffers with Severe Anger? – Fr. John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Along the Journey Home – Rebekah Durham Hart, Integrated Catholic Life™

The Allure Of the Crunchy Catholic – Stephanie Calis, Ignitum Today

Blessed John Paul II and the Christ-Centered Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes – Douglas Bushman, Catholic World Report

Believers Lose Their Faith In The Religion Of Big Government – Dave Hartline, The American Catholic

Lourdes Flooded, with Pictures – Mulier Fortis

Godless Secularism Assaults Life and Liberty – Archbishop William Lori, Crisis Magazine

The Papal Fanon is Back and Some Notes on The Canonization Rite – Augustinus, Rorate Cæli

St. Francis, Part I? – Wake Up and Smell the Incense

Ordinations at Clear Creek Abbey (with lots of pics) – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Costanzo Festa, Super Flumina Babylonis – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Being and Delight – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

Catholics Stage First Event at Crystal Cathedral – California Catholic Daily

The Latest Vatican Official to Suffer "Promotion-Removal" Under Pope Benedict XVI – Andrea Tornielli, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

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