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The Next Pope: Twelve Cardinals to Watch by Father Dwight Longenecker of Standing on my Head - BigPulpit.com

Down the Rabbit Hole: On the Virtue of Prudent Speech - Mark Nowakowski, One Peter 5

How To Handle Those Mixed Feelings about Pope Francis's Remarks - Anabelle Hazard, Catholic Stand

The Didache Bible Is Here - Doctor Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

Troubling Developments in the ‘Divorce Debate’ by Monsignor Charles Pope of the Archdiocese of Washington City - BigPulpit.com

Many Have Reduced Love to Kindness and Kindness to Affirmation – Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington City

Cardinal O’Malley, March for Life, and Cognitive Dissonance - Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

Will a Future Pope Be Forced to Flee Rome? – William Kilpatrick, The Cthlc World Report

Against Those Who Call Religious Art Idolatry – Matthew Heinrich, Ignitum Today

Polite Fascism in New Jersey: The Logic of State ‘License’ to Have Kids – Matthew J. Franck, First Things

Ask Yourself: Would Jesus Abort a Child? – Matthew James Christoff, The New eMangelization

Salt of the Earth: Did Jesus Mean to Lay Waste to the Land? – Peter J. Leithart, First Things

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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.