The Best of Catholic Blogging

Same-Sex Marriage and the Cathedral destruction in New Zealand

President Obama’s DOMA Outrage Will Backfire - Maggie Gallagher, National Catholic Register

How the Next Civil War Will Begin - Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

Resisting Obamacare with the Interstate Compact - Brian Saint-Paul, InsideCatholic

Does Giving Women a Year’s Supply of The Pill Reduce Abortions? - DarwinCatholic, The American Catholic

Christchurch’s Damaged Cathedrals, Photos Before & After NZ Earthquake - FaithWorld

Dissident Catholic Magazine:  Church Needs Laity Near The Top - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

The Nature of a Lie - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

UK: High Court Judgment, Christian Belief Inimical to Children - Father Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

Toward a Truly Free Market: A Review - Richard Aleman, The Distributist Review

Can a Priest Simply Refuse to Hear a Confession? - Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Obama Abandons Defense of Marriage - James S. Cole, MercatorNet

This will be a continuing series, Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register by ThePulp.it.

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