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The Godliness of Motherhood - Doctor Donald DeMarco, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Great Uncle Aloysius, My Sincere Practicing Pagan Relative - David Bentley Hart, First Things/On the Square

Sex Change Operations on Newborn Girls in India Exposed - Mauro Pianti, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

The Significance of an Archduke - The Mad Monarchist

Does Economic Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior? - Robert T. Miller, First Things/First Thoughts

Mid East Misogyny and the Plight of Muslim Women - Ken Connor, Catholic Lane

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Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal Catholic life, he reverted completely to his childhood faith that began on the eve of the funeral of Pope John Paul II. He publishes Big Pulpit, Catholic Stand, Ignitum Today, and The American Catholic.

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