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Latest Buzz on the Summorum Pontificum ‘Clarification’ - Father Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

How Much Ruin is in a Nation?: The Spain of Philip IV - Christopher S. Johnson, First Things/On The Square

From the Question Box: “Scandals and the Church” - Pat McNamara

Libyan Enlisted to Aid the Advance of Christianity! - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Do Beautiful Churches Produce Vocations? - Father Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

You Want Beauty? Find It in the Liturgy. - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

For Your Lenten Friday Night at The Movies II - Allison Salerno, Why I Am Catholic

How Catholic Is Of Gods and Men? Part 3 - Steven D. Greydanus, National Catholic Register

Why We Abstain from Meat, But Not from Fish or Wine - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

Our Lady of Kazan & American Pluralism - Peter Berger, The American Interest/Peter Berger Blog

Rules for a Internet Catholic Debate - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

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

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Notre Dame’s New Ethics Center Causes Controversy, Indicates Potential Catholic-Identity Clashes Ahead

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