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The Crown and the Cross: Royal Families and Their Religion - Rome Reports

The Liturgy Answers the Problem of Evil - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Social Justice is About Redemption, Not Mandating Contraception - Tom Crowe, Catholic Vote

Natural Family Planning with a “Contraceptive Mentality”? - Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

Conversion Envy - Joseph, VirtuousPla.net

Madrid Profits over $200 million from World Youth Day - Catholic News Agency

A Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty - Tobias Winright, Catholic Moral Theology

When Bush put JP2’s Letter on the Side Table without Opening It - Gerard O’Connell, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

Is Catholic New Media Really Effective? - Brandon Vogt, The Thin Veil

Catholic in the NFL: A Philip Rivers Interview - Eric Porteous, Life Teen

From California: Another Front in the Culture Wars - Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

Romantic Novels Written by the Daughter of a Victorian Clergyman - Car. Moynihan, MercatorNet

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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.