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U.S. Bishops: Bloggers Play ‘Critical Role’ in Defending the Church.  Click on the link by Patrick B. Craine to read more.
U.S. Bishops: Bloggers Play ‘Critical Role’ in Defending the Church. Click on the link by Patrick B. Craine to read more. (photo: Catholic Blogger Mark Shea)

U.S. Bishops: Catholic Bloggers Play ‘Critical Role’ in Defending the Church - Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews

The Singing Priest - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

The Replacement Apostle - Stephen Beale, Catholic Exchange

Young Women Exploited by Fertility Industry - Denise J. Hunnell MD, Catholic Lane

Fr. Robert Barron Eviscerates Andrew Sullivan - Paul Zummo, The American Catholic

Jimmy Carter, Biblical Scholar and Theologian - George Weigel, First Things/On the Square

Sex, Sanity, and Eternity - Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report

How God Heals the Broken-Hearted and Binds Up Their Wounds - Megan McKenna, Hearts on Fire

Quæritur: English Translation of Breviary to Fulfill Duty of Saying the Office - Fr. Z's Blog

Ten Years Later, Church in Boston Struggles to Recover - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

A Religion for Atheists - Francis Phillips, Crisis Magazine

New Stupid Media Trick on Cardinal Pell (vs. Richard Dawkins) - Mark Shea, Patheos/Catholic and Enjoying It!

Blessings During Communion? - Fr. Joe, Southern Fried Catholicism

La Croix: S.S.P.X. Infighting & Waiting - New Catholic, Rorate Cæli

False Greatness and Its Remedy - Nathan Kennedy, Ignitum Today

Billionaire’s Wife, Melinda Gates, Thinks There’s Too Many Non-Billionaires - Thomas L. McDonald, Patheos/God and the Machine

Pontifical University in Peru Rejects Vatican Deadline - Catholic News Agency/Eternal Word Television Network News

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Maya Hawke as American writer Flannery O'Connor in the 2024 film "Wildcat."

Jessica Hooten Wilson on 'Wildcats' /Father Dave Pivonka on Title IX (May 4)

Flannery O’Connor shares the big screen with some of her most memorable short story characters in the new indy film ‘Wildcat’. O’Connor scholar Jessica Hooten Wilson gives her take on the film and what animates the Catholic 20th century writer’s prophetic imagination.Then FUS University President Father David Pivonka explains why Franciscan University of Steubenville has pushed back against the Biden administrations’ new interpretation of Title IX, which redefines sex discrimination to include a student’s self- asserted ‘gender identity’.